⛴Supply chains

rail suspended through a holiday weekend, a Rhine at 16.0 cm, and a coast that may lose its ports inside three days

Two corridors degraded and one about to be. Eastern Japan has rail suspensions and more than 4,000 homes without power in Chiba while the rain peaks — a same-day routing problem on a holiday weekend, with the system extratropical by Tuesday. The Rhine at Kaub fell to 16.0 cm, down five, which deepens the low-water period rather than ending it: barge loading factors stay the binding constraint on that corridor and the week ahead keeps the gauge near its floor. 32 flood warnings across the American interior are a road-and-rail access problem on saturated ground, with the flash-flood focus moving onto the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic. And the item that still has lead time is Mexico's Pacific coast, where a Category-4 forecast inside 72 hours puts port operations, inland trucking and offshore assets on one clock. Who owns the call — a logistics planner deciding today which lane to pre-book around.

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