I'm an industrial engineer, more manufacturing focused than specifically logistics. From what I've seen and heard from talking with other IE's at other companie

I'm an industrial engineer, more manufacturing focused than specifically logistics. From what I've seen and heard from talking with other IE's at other companies, we're probably looking at a couple years before things are "normal" again, and they'll continue to be a mess in a way that's transparent to the consumer longer than that. As long as there are areas of the world with significant trade that are being hit hard by COVID there will be disruptions. In the last few weeks, Southeast Asia has had reduced port capacity due to a COVID surge. Heck, even in US production it's tough to get production and warehouse employees right now! Weird times for sure, even if you're paying a strong wage. If you're curious about general global shipping, in 2017 Flexport put out a great podcast about cargo ships. I really wish they would do an additional podcast about the current happenings, though their blog posts are quite interesting. https://www.flexport.com/blog/alexis-madrigal-containers-podcast/ https://www.flexport.com/blog/alexis-madrigal-containers-pod... Odd Lots (a Bloomberg podcast) also had a great interview from earlier this month. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02/gene-seroka-on-the-logistical-logjam-at-the-port-of-la https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02/gene-sero...