Only two months have passed in 2025, but it seems that the second largest risk of the Annual Survey of the Insurer Allianz Commercial on the risks expected by all types of companies, interruptions that can involve supply chains – proved that high -profile risk professionals gave it.
During the first months of 2025, the administration of the Trump administration that results from the rates against rivals and traditional allies has the US contractors on inflation of material price and delivery delays.
But despite this, the best classified business risk provided by all types of companies for 2025 is cybersecurity, according to Allianz Commercial.
The insurer BIts annual risk barometer On the results of the survey of 3,778 risks managers of 106 countries.
Published for the first time in January, the survey of all industries cited risk concerns in this order: cybersecurity, business interruption, changes in legislation and regulation, climate change, fires and explosions, macroeconomic developments, market changes, political risk and violence and new technologies.
Supply chain and geopolitical risks
Engineering and construction professionals classified their importance into the second importance, to third place in 2024. The two other specific construction and construction risks of construction–Natural catastrophes (including storms, floods, forest fires and extreme weather events) Fire and explosions and climate change–It seems to be part of the same vortex of problems.
Business interruption is usually a consequence of events such as a natural disaster, a cybernetic attack, or an interruption, insolvency or political risks such as conflict or civilian discomfort, says the Alianz trade survey.
“The concern about business interruption is also driven by the interruption of the supply chain and geopolitical risks,” adds Tasker, head of commercial regional construction of Allianz for the Americas.
He says that the interruptions of the supply chain with global effects occur approximately every 1.4 years and that the trend increases. “Today,” says Tasker, “a failure or interruption in any segment of a supply chain tends to be more serious, leaving a minimum time to answer.”
