Trade Recovery Protocols. Making the Supply Chain More Resilient

The global supply chain system must be able to quickly recover from major disruptions. The system is essential to the global economy, global peace and prosperity. Building this systemic resilience requires deliberate efforts that minimize the aggregate impact of future events. In the face of inevitable disruptions, two of the most important aspects of resilience are systemic elasticity and the ability to surge and flex assets and resources. Resilience also means ensuring adequate procedures for resuming post-incident trade, including measures to restore public confidence in system safety. This resilience relies heavily upon assessments of critical infrastructure and key resource status, clear and open communications among all relevant partners, and collaboration with and adherence to prioritized cargo movement. This resilience also requires active collaboration with sector stakeholders in order to: (1) rapidly evaluate any impact on system capacity; (2) prioritize the sequence for infrastructure regeneration; (3) identify, obtain, and deploy supplies and personnel to maintain or increase capacity; and (4) re-establish cargo flow.

• Record URL:
  http://uscg.mil/proceedings/archive/2011/Vol68_No4_Wint2011-12.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Ownes, Ryan F
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 63-66
• Serial:
  • Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea, Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: U.S. Coast Guard
  • Serial URL: http://www.uscg.mil/proceedings/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cargo handling; Elasticity (Economics); Resilience (Materials); Service discontinuance; Supply chain management; Trade
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01363020
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 17 2012 8:31AM