Covid-19 a timely wake-up call for Singapore logistics

New capacity-building solutions may enable it to take on a larger role on global supply chain stage

Published Mon, Apr 27, 2020 · 09:50 PM

LIKE the rest of the world, Singapore is grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic. The circuit breaker has been extended to June 1, even as some countries including China and Vietnam are already easing restrictions and allowing businesses - and life in general - to resume some form of normalcy.

We have been reading for weeks about a marked reduction in air and ocean cargo from and to China and the rest of the world affecting supply chains globally.

To compound this, with the rise in Covid-19 infections among Singapore's foreign worker population, labour flows have also been impacted.

The International Monetary Fund has sounded…