Le catene globali del valore e la logistica internazionale al tempo del Covid-19

[Autom. eng. transl.] The Covid-19 affair has strongly highlighted the strong degree of interrelation of world economies. The virus has spread from the initial Wuhan outbreak to the rest of the world following a path strongly correlated with the mobility of people linked to economic reasons. Closing the borders to international mobility was one of the first measures to stem an aggressive spread of the virus. The resulting economic crisis had as a further manifestation the tensions on the international markets of strategic production in the acute phase of the health emergency, the tensions on the prices of a significant number of raw materials and agricultural products and the breaking of numerous value chains. , caused by the different lockdowns in different countries. In particular, the latter evidence highlighted the sensitivity of long value chains to extreme events such as the pandemic and the lockdown that followed.