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Assignment 1

Review the following article:

BC floods reveal fragile food supply chains — 4 ways to manage the crisis now and in the future

https://theconversation.com/b-c-floods-reveal-fragile-food-supply-chains-4-ways-to-manage-the-crisis-now-and-in-the-future-172220

Questions

Critical Infrastructures (CI): mudslide, damaged ports, and destroyed highways and railways in BC, Canada coupled with new waves of the COVID-19 breakouts all over the world and here at home have caused interruptions in CI of Canada.

  1. Find two reasonable definitions of CI
  2. Compare the interruption in the supply chain management in Canada due to the Coronavirus and rail blockades event in 2020 with the supply chain management interruptions in Canada due to the BC flood:
    1. In what way(s) are these two CI interruption events similar to each other?
    2. In what way(s) are these two CI interruption events different from each other?
  3. How can Canada protect its CI against interruptions due to natural disasters?
  4. What are major risk factors (weak points) in the Canadian logistics networks?
  5. What are the main characteristics of a resilient logistics network?

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logistics_assignment_1.txt · Last modified: 2023/10/10 13:09 by Eric Bright