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A few months ago, I titled a column
“Not so easy to restart an economy”.
It was May, and the subject of shortages was beginning to emerge like a grain of sand in the cogs of the global economic recovery. At the time, it was still mainly subjected to waves of confinements and suspended from the success of vaccination campaigns. Six months later, the health horizon has cleared considerably, but production, supply and delivery difficulties are piling up. The chaos of the recovery is commensurate with the shock of the health crisis.
"Anyone who has ever seen meal trays propelled to the ceiling of an airplane through an air hole knows that their content does not fall back on the plates"
, writes my colleague from Les Échos Jean-Marc Vittori (I would say that the formula smacks of lived experience, right?).
Ports are congested, especially those of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California, through which 40% of imports land
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