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There is also a phenomenon similar to (inverse) traffic jams where a bottleneck wanders up the supply chain. Just in time delivery has some disadvantages and we basically use the road (or rail, sea) as warehouse nowadays. But ships, trains and trucks might not get filled when production halted because of lacking parts. Still the trucks and ships are bound to their current job and are sitting empty somewhere. It will slowly entangle as transport priority gets reordered.



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