Bruce Slicer

Australia was weeks away from its trucks stopping, and most people never heard about it 🚛 In 2021, China restricted exports of urea, the main ingredient in AdBlue. About half of Australia’s diesel trucks need AdBlue to run, and Australia imported roughly 80% of its urea. With only weeks of supply left, the government set up an emergency taskforce and asked Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Japan for supplies to keep freight, food, fuel and medicine moving. One chemical. One country. Almost the whole supply chain. Should Australia make more of its own essentials? 👇 Send this to someone who drives a truck. Sources: Reuters (Dec 2021), ASPI The Strategist (2022), The New Daily (Dec 2021) #australia #auspol #trucking #supplychain #economics