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...
Derailment of BHP Iron Ore Train Exposes Australia’s Reliance on Private Railways November 8, 2018 By Rebecca Keenan A network of private railroads more than three times the length of the New York subway system is the key...
BHP Expects Interruption to Australia Iron Ore Exports After Train Derailment November 7, 2018 By Melanie Burton Mining giant BHP Billiton expects some interruption to its Australian iron ore exports after a nearly 3-km-long train loaded with...
BHP’s Western Australia Iron Ore Train Derailment Will Take Week to Recover November 6, 2018 By James Thornhill and Ranjeetha Pakiam BHP Billiton Ltd. expects to take about a week to recover from the derailment of one of its iron ore...
Italy Bridge Operator’s Shares Drop After Disaster; Supply Chain Impact Expected August 16, 2018 By Ilaria Polleschi Italy’s biggest toll-road operator came under heavy stock-market attack on Thursday after Rome criticized it for a deadly bridge collapse...
Taiwan iPhone Chipmaker Scrambles to Recover After Debilitating Computer Virus August 6, 2018 By Debby Wu and Mark Gurman Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), which makes chips for the iPhone and other devices, is recovering from a debilitating computer...