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Wednesday 18th March
Dan Clark
March 18, 2026
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Today’s Project Management Global briefing: Conflict Doesn’t Just Raise Prices; It Rewrites Timelines
The headlines focus on oil. They always do. Prices spike, markets react, and analysts debate how long the disruption will last. But for project professionals, the real impact runs deeper and lasts longer.
Conflict in the Middle East is already reshaping delivery conditions. When key routes face uncertainty, logistics slow. When energy prices swing, cost assumptions unravel. When risk rises, decisions hesitate. The result is familiar: delays that don’t appear dramatic in isolation, but compound quickly across programmes.
What makes this moment different is the speed. Disruption is no longer a slow burn; it lands mid-project, mid-contract, mid-plan. Schedules built on relative stability are being tested in real time. And this is where projects are truly exposed. Not by the existence of risk, but by how well that risk was understood in the first place.
For many, contingency has been treated as a line item rather than a strategy. This week is a reminder that volatility is not an outlier; it is part of the operating environment. The projects that hold are those designed with that in mind.
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