Rhine River Shipping Faces Another Historic Shutdown as Drought Hits Water Levels July 24, 2019 By William Wilkes, Bill Lehane and Vanessa Dezem The bustling boat traffic on Europe’s Rhine river ground to a halt for the first time in living memory last...
Sweltering Heatwave in Germany Sparks Wildfires, Forces Speed Cut on Autobahn June 27, 2019 By William Wilkes and Brian Parkin A blistering heatwave prompted Germany to impose speed restrictions on usually limit-free stretches of its high-speed motorways Wednesday, the latest...
Rhine River Could Be Impassable to Ships this Summer if European Drought Returns April 12, 2019 By William Wilkes Germany’s Rhine River could be impassable to ships again this summer if Europe has another drought, a once-rare weather phenomenon...
Norsk Hydro Unit Begins Operating at 50% of Capacity After Cyber Attack March 21, 2019 Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, said a key unit is operating at only 50 percent of...
Norsk Hydro Using Backup Servers to Restore Systems After Ransomware Attack March 20, 2019 By Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, has made some progress restoring operations but is not yet back...
Norsk Hydro Cyber Attack Exposes Risks of Global Supply Chain Disruptions March 20, 2019 By Mark Burton and Jonas Cho Walsgard The ransomware attack crippling one of the world’s top aluminum makers is exposing how crucial sophisticated digital systems have become...
UK Corporates Readying for ‘Hardest of Brexits’: Deloitte Survey February 4, 2019 By David Milliken Major British businesses’ appetite to take on financial risk has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade due...
Climate Change, Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Rhine River Shipping Access January 18, 2019 By William Wilkes, Vanessa Dezem and Brian Parkin Kevin Kilps’s car ferry churns the waters of Germany’s Rhine river as he steers toward the bank opposite Kaub, a...
Cyber Joins Business Interruption as Top Global Business Risks: Allianz Survey January 16, 2019 By L.S. Howard Cyber incidents join business interruption as the top risks facing global businesses, according to a survey conducted by Allianz Global...
UK Companies Prepare for Disorderly Brexit and Supply Chain Disruptions November 21, 2018 By Kate Holton and Noor Zainab Hussain British companies selling everything from washing machines to flights, food and mortgages plan to spend tens of millions of pounds...