This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today’s article introduces a new methodology for integrating risk management procedures into planning and design of maritime transportation networks. Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks, by by Christian Nedeß, Axel Friedewald, Lars Wagner, and Lutz Neumann is a book chapter in Managing Risks in Supply Chains: How to Build Reliable Collaboration in Logistics, edited by Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker. This article has both captured my imagination and clarified my understanding of risks in maritime transportation networks, much of it due to an excellent use of clear-cut graphics, showing that authors not only know their subject well, they also know how to convey it well.

Continue reading →