When September arrived in Norway, so did the salmon. The country’s aquaculture sector, led by its globally dominant salmon industry, always have its busiest season of the year starting from September – hauling over 181,000 tonnes of fish from cold coastal waters in just one month. But as harvest volumes peak, a different kind of bottleneck is formed – on roads, in ports, and across Europe’s refrigerated supply chains. In 2024, a perfect storm of seasonal supply, infrastructure strain, and unpredictable disruptions exposed a painful truth: when logistics planning starts in peak season, it’s already too late. Supply Outpaces Infrastructure / The seasonality of seafood is nothing new. Salmon, cod, and herring harvests in Scandinavia follow biological rhythms that concentrate production in the warmer months, then taper off in winter. What’s changed is how tight the margins for error have become. (....)