https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/business-continuity/Recent content in Business Continuity on Rational AmericaHugoen-usSun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/supply-chain-resilience-and-rational-risk-mitigati/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/supply-chain-resilience-and-rational-risk-mitigati/<p>One ordinary Tuesday morning in March 2021, a 400-meter container ship named Ever Given turned sideways in the Suez Canal. And stayed there. For six days, roughly 12% of global sea trade was held hostage by a single stuck vessel. Industry publication Lloyds List estimated that about $9.6 billion of goods were being delayed for every day the canal stayed blocked.</p> <p>You might not remember the ripple effects. That&rsquo;s the problem — we forget fast. European ports stayed congested for weeks afterward. Retailers wrote off entire spring collections. Yet if you ask most business owners today how that event permanently changed their logistics network, the answer is often a shrug.</p>