Flooding exposes vulnerability of Australia’s supply chains
This year’s flooding has exposed how fragile and unsustainable some of Australia’s supply chains are. Road has steadily increased its share of domestic non-bulk trade. In the 1970s, road accounted for 65.5% and now that figure is 79.8%. Rail on the other hand transported 22.8% of domestic non-bulk in 1977, and now only accounts for 16.7%.
The reason for this seems to lie in a
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