US Small Businesses Grapple With Ongoing Supply Chain Disruptions businessinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from businessinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Girl’s tragic death in oil industry explosion haunts her family
Maxwell Smith filled with grief over his daughter s death. Credit: Julie Dermansky
Maxwell Smith is on a mission to make sure no one loses a child the way he lost his 14-year-old daughter, Zalee Gail Day-Smith. Zalee, a vivacious high school freshman who loved singing, died on February 28 when oil tanks exploded near her home in Beauregard, Louisiana. “Her body was thrown 200 feet in the air,” Smith told me when I went to visit the family a month after the accident. Zalee’s body was found across the street from the site of the blast in the Bear Field oil field, just north of Lake Charles. It was located alongside one of the oil tanks that had been blown off its foundation. Smith says that his daughter’s body was mutilated to such a degree that the family was never allowed to see it.
Freight Companies Brace for Post-Suez Port Backups
Logistics operators are bracing for a cascade of sea containers that bring new congestion to supply chains as shipping networks work through backlogs from the Suez Canal blockage.
Some companies are reserving truck transport for inland European destinations several weeks ahead of time or leasing additional shipping containers to ensure exporters can get goods on vessels once an expected surge in ship traffic hits Europe’s ports following the backup at the Suez.
The nearly weeklong traffic jam caused by the 1,300-foot Ever Given container ship blocked hundreds of ships from the waterway, a critical lane in Asia-Europe shipping that accounts for some 13% of global maritime trade, and sent some vessels on a longer path around Africa to avoid the backup.
Suez Canal mishap puts battered supply chains under more pressure pressherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.