Previous research have distinguished the risks of supply chain disruptions and the\nnegative effect of supply chain disruption on operational performance in terms of\nsales, costs and inventory. However, few researchers have studied supply chain risk\nmanagement and strategies in relation to port conflicts. The 2016 port conflict at a\nmajor logistics port in Scandinavia, the Port of Gothenburg, posed an opportunity to\nstudy risk management and strategies in the context of major port disruptions, in\nthis case, a labour conflict. The fashion retail industry was affected especially hard\ndue to the short product life cycles and this paper, by means of case study method\nand analysis, investigates five cases in order to understand how they were affected\nand what mitigation strategies was used. Results illustrates that during the port\nconflict, the percentage of increase in logistics cost ranged between 15% and 70%,\ngreatly affected by what mitigation strategy was used by the case company.
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