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Supply chains in US brace for hurricane season

Florida, United States

Every year, from around the beginning of July, states along the southern part of the Eastern Seaboard in the USA brace themselves for hurricane season, which can last until well into autumn. Florida, on the south-east coast, is the most hurricane-prone state of them all.

Companies whose supply chains are affected by this annual extreme weather phenomenon increasingly use Industry 4.0 tech for real-time data on rail, road and air routes, to keep supply disruption to a minimum.