Monitor supply chain risk news with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Telegram alerts

Who's it for

Supply chain and logistics specialists, freight forwarders, importers/exporters, and risk teams who need early warning when maritime, carrier, geopolitical, or weather events threaten their cargo or trade lanes.

If you've ever found out about a Red Sea diversion, an OFAC sanctions package, a Panama Canal restriction, or a Gulf hurricane after it hit your bookings - this template fixes that. It turns 12 free public feeds into a single Claude-classified Telegram alert stream, scoped to the chokepoints, lanes, and risk dimensions you actually care about.

How it works

The workflow runs every 6 hours and polls 12 free public RSS feeds across 4 supply chain risk dimensions:

- Maritime: gCaptain, Maritime Executive, Safety4Sea, Splash247 - Carrier: The Loadstar, FreightWaves, Container News - Geopolitical: Google News searches for sanctions, tariffs, OFAC, export bans - Weather: GDACS (Global Disaster Alerts), NOAA Hurricane Center, USGS Significant Earthquakes

Each new item is deduped against past runs using n8n workflow static data - no database needed. Then Claude Sonnet 4.5 (the Sonar Analyst) classifies it into a structured JSON with primary risk dimension, severity 1-5, affected region, geo node, trade lanes affected, source reliability, and recommended action (monitor / alert / escalate). Five few-shot examples cover one case from each dimension plus an "other" fallback.

Items at or above your severity threshold are reformatted by a second Claude pass (the Sonar Reporter) into a scannable HTML Telegram alert with dimension-specific emoji, severity color codes, and a direct link to the source. Items below threshold end silently.