Australia’s economic recovery has been stunted by an international supply chain crisis, with businesses struggling to secure critical supplies—a problem many expect will persist into 2022. The pandemic wrought by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has made timely sea freight a rare commodity, with the intermittent closure of ports cascading into the clogging of shipping lanes and delays in deliveries. In Australia, lockdowns, border closures, and travel restrictions have placed further strain on freight deliveries due to the surge in demand for imported goods as consumers spend more time shopping online. A survey by Australia’s peak industry body, Ai Group, revealed that these facts have resulted in close to two-thirds of all businesses reporting the year 2021 to have proven more difficult in sourcing supplies compared with earlier on in the pandemic in 2020. And more than half of Australian businesses expect this to continue in 2022, with only …