Hello, I'm Ros Atkins. Each week on the BBC World Service, I look at one of the biggest

stories in the news. This week, it's the disruption to the global supply chain.

We haven't got milk on the shaft one day.

We haven't got milk on the shaft one day.

We haven't got bread on the shaft the second day. That customer comes back on the third day and

we haven't got it again.

The global supply chain underpins how we get many of the things we want or need in our lives but it's not functioning as it normally

does and that's having a vast array of consequences around the world such as for this

shop owner in the UK. This is all we've got and we can't get anymore.

Don't know why we can't get anymore, Spider-Man at the moment.

There's a new film being released, so this is the new character, still waiting for the products.

From Toys for Kids to Semiconductors for Cars, there's now a huge gap between supply and demand and the supply chain isn't coping.

The main gateway for Chinese goods into the United States.

The ports of LA and Long Beach are blockedoc. Something that was pretty much unheard of before the pandemic.

It is a traffic jam on the Pacific Ocean. Cargo ships loaded with goods from electronics to holiday toys just

waiting to reach dry land. Traffic is up 50% from pre-pandemic levels.

That's my colleague Michelle Flurry.

She's describing how dozens of container ships are having to wait to dock at two of America's

biggest ports.

In turn, Nike's warning of product shortages.

The US retailer, Costco, is limiting sales of toilet paper, and the New York Times cuts to it, telling

us the world is still short of everything. Get used to it. And as we see these shortages,

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