Guest editorial

[...]the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic may go beyond the merely economic performance and affect supply chain viability (Ivanov, 2020b), posing the questions of supply chain resiliency, sustainability, recovery and reconfigurability (Paul et al., 2021a, b;Cheramin et al., 2021). [...]this special issue published seven articles in the area of sustainable recovery in supply chains. The second article explored 13 critical sustainable recovery measures for transportation systems and found that efficient traffic management, sustainability-focused policies, sensitization of stakeholders, financial support and adoption of 4 R practices are important for a sustainable recovery in freight transportation systems (Dwivedi et al., 2021).