Report flags cyber threats, aging infrastructure as top supply chain risks for 2026

Cyber-attacks on logistics networks, aging infrastructure and extreme weather are among the most significant threats facing global supply chains in 2026, according to a new report from Everstream Analytics.

The company’s 2026 Annual Supply Chain Risk Report warns that large-scale disruptions, rather than day-to-day operational challenges, pose the greatest risk to businesses, potentially leading to stockouts, lost sales and customer attrition.

Everstream data shows cyber-attacks on logistics operations surged 61 per cent in 2025, with attacks targeting ports, carriers and third-party logistics providers. Between 2021 and 2025, cyber-attacks aimed at logistics increased by 965 per cent, driven in part by state-sponsored campaigns against critical maritime and trade infrastructure.

The report also highlights growing security threats to transportation networks, including GPS jamming and spoofing affecting air and sea traffic in Europe. Since August 2024, such activity by Russian or Belarusian actors has intensified in the Baltic Sea region, which handles about 15 per cent of global cargo shipping.

Aging infrastructure is identified as another major vulnerability. Everstream points to a 2025 McKinsey estimate that $106 trillion in global infrastructure investment will be required by 2040, including $36 trillion for logistics and transportation. Recent extreme weather events have already exposed weaknesses, including cyclone damage to highway networks in Sri Lanka and disruptions at ports and manufacturing supply chains across Southeast Asia.

The report predicts at least one multibillion-dollar supply chain disruption in 2026 linked to failing infrastructure.

Extreme weather continues to intensify supply chain risk, with Europe experiencing an estimated €43 billion in losses from heat, drought and flooding in the summer of 2025. Global flood-related economic losses have risen 27 per cent since 2000, with agricultural supply chains particularly affected. Everstream notes that cacao prices surged nearly 300 per cent in late 2024 and early 2025, underscoring growing volatility in food and commodity markets.

In addition to cyber threats, infrastructure degradation and climate-related disruptions, the report identifies geopolitical fragmentation and the strategic use of trade regulations as another critical risk for 2026, citing recent developments in Venezuela as an example of how rapidly shifting political conditions can destabilize global trade and logistics networks.

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