A file photo of shipping containers at the Port of Savannah in Garden City, Georgia. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
STEPHANIE Loomis had hoped that the chaos besieging the global supply chain was subsiding. The floating traffic jams off ports. The multiplying costs of moving freight. The resulting shortages of goods.
All of this had seemed like an unpleasant memory confined to the Covid-19 pandemic.
