⛴Supply chains

a holiday rail and port weekend in Japan, a dated release on an African waterway, a flooding logistics region in Vietnam, and a river that is still too low to load

Too much water in four places, not enough in one, and only two of them come with a date. Japan is the week's sequencing problem: rain into eastern Japan from today, worst Sep 18–19, on ground reported at about 365 percent of normal, putting Shinkansen and commuter-rail suspension planning, Tokyo-Bay and Izu ferry and port-call sequencing and slope and drainage watch onto a holiday weekend when the network is at its busiest. Southern Vietnam takes 150 to 300 mm over five days from today across the country's main logistics region, with 10 to 20 cm expected in Ho Chi Minh City and pumps reinforced. Nigeria's Benue corridor carries rain flooding plus a regulated release on its scheduled day two, which puts crossings and inland-waterway movements on a known seven-day ramp instead of a surprise. The Palawan low is an inter-island question across the Visayas. And against all of it the Rhine at Kaub reads 24.0 cm and flat — still constraining barge loading, still refusing to give a planner a date. Buy schedule buffer for the weekend or hold capacity for the Japanese holiday: that is the trade.

carried on 41 of the last 64 editions — since Jul 5, the 10 most recent shown.