{"id":8109,"date":"2024-07-19T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/crowdstrike-outage-cause-global-supply-chain-problems\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:08:38","slug":"crowdstrike-outage-cause-global-supply-chain-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/crowdstrike-outage-cause-global-supply-chain-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdstrike Outage Cause Global Supply Chain Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international delivery expert Parcelhero is warning that the Crowdstrike cybersecurity firm outage, which impacted many Windows-based systems, could have serious knock-on effects for global supply chains and deliveries.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A worldwide IT outage on Friday could create severe knock-on effects for global supply chains, warns the international delivery expert\u00a0Parcelhero<\/a>. The outage, understood to be caused by an issue with an update at cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike, impacted many Windows-based systems. It could lead to widespread disruption to supply chains and deliveries across the world, Parcelhero warns.<\/p>\n

Parcelhero\u2019s Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks M.I.L.T., says: \u2018Many airports, ports, railways and retailers reported problems as a result of the IT outage.<\/p>\n

\u2018Delayed flights and issues with IT systems at airports will impact airfreight. Not only will slots for dedicated airfreight flights be disrupted, but many international goods and packages are transported not only in specially designed cargo planes but also in the cargo holds of passenger aircraft. 1,000 flights globally were reported to have been cancelled by Friday mid-morning.<\/p>\n

\u2018International ports have also been impacted by the issues. For example, Poland\u2019s largest container terminal, the Baltic Hub in Gdansk, asked companies to stop sending containers to the port, saying \u201c\u2026a global Microsoft operating system outage (that) is hampering terminal operations.\u201d Delayed and out-of-position containers are never good, as many people will remember from the global shortages created by the Suez Canal blockage caused by the ship \u201cEver Given\u201d back in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u2018Similarly, across the UK and globally, there are reports of many delayed and cancelled rail services. In the UK, for example, Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway and Southern were among the major operators reporting problems. Freight trains have to be threaded between passenger services and so are likely to face disruption.<\/p>\n

\u2018Retailers also experienced problems. The supermarket chain Morrisons reported payment issues, for example, although these were largely resolved by mid-morning. The bakery and coffee shop chain Gails also had to suspend in-store purchases. Perhaps more concerningly, UK community pharmacies were impacted by the outage.<\/p>\n

\u2018Time will tell the extent of disruption to international trade and industry caused by the global IT issue. It\u2019s believed that a Crowdstrike update caused a BSOD loop on some Windows machines, meaning they repeatedly booted and crashed. The problem was that many systems updated automatically overnight. Crowdstrike is reported to have rolled back the update and the company stated on Friday morning that \u201ca fix has been deployed\u201d. However, it could be some time before its impact has been resolved on all systems, as IT staff may need to physically access individual machines to boot them into safe mode and remove the update file.<\/p>\n

\u2018Parcelhero\u2019s international services use all the leading global courier networks. If there is an issue with one international carrier\u2019s services, customers will be able to select from many other operators to that destination. For more information, see\u00a0https:\/\/www.parcelhero.com\/en-gb\/international-courier-services<\/a><\/p>\n

Transport & Logistics<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Driving The Industry Forward<\/p>\n

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The international delivery expert Parcelhero is warning that the Crowdstrike cybersecurity firm outage, which impacted many Windows-based systems, could have serious knock-on effects for global supply chains and deliveries. A worldwide IT outage on Friday could create severe knock-on effects for global supply chains, warns the international delivery expert\u00a0Parcelhero. The outage, understood to be caused by an issue with an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}