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(Photo courtesy Port of Los Angeles)
Crops, Markets

Biden signs ocean shipping bill in bid to reduce backlogs

By David Shepardson June 17, 2022
Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation to improve oversight of ocean shipping, which lawmakers say will help curb inflation and ease export backlogs. The […] Read more

Grain storage at a Russian seaport. (Pridannikov/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

London marine insurers label all Russian waters high risk

By Jonathan Saul April 5, 2022
London | Reuters — London’s marine insurance market on Monday added all of Russia’s waters to its list of areas deemed high risk, an advisory showed, which is likely to […] Read more

File photo of a grain terminal on the Dnieper River in Ukraine. (Konoplytska/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Ukraine’s ports to stay closed until Russian invasion ends

By Jonathan Saul February 28, 2022
London | Reuters — Ukrainian ports will remain closed until Russia’s invasion ends, the head of Ukraine’s Maritime Administration said on Monday, adding that the port of Mariupol has sustained […] Read more

Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)
Crops

Thunder Bay shipping season wraps up

By MarketsFarm January 15, 2022
MarketsFarm — The last vessel of the shipping season will depart the Port of Thunder Bay on Friday. Grain handling volumes were down on the year, but increases in other […] Read more

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Markets

Baltic Dry Index drops to three-month lows

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 3, 2021
MarketsFarm – Ocean freight rates have dropped significantly over the past month, with declining demand out of China behind much of the weakness. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), which is […] Read more


File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

By Marcelo Teixeira October 23, 2021
New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container […] Read more

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Crops

CFA’s Hay West program up and running

Program website now online

By Dave Bedard September 20, 2021
A revival of the “Hay West” initiative, aimed at shipping feed from Eastern Canada to supplement drought-dented supplies in the West, has gone live. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture on […] Read more

Grain is loaded onto ships for export at a port on the Parana River near Rosario, Argentina on Jan. 31, 2017. (File photo: Reuters/Marcos Brindicci)
Crops, Markets

Argentina agrees short-term contract with river dredger

By Maximilian Heath September 11, 2021
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina’s government has agreed a short-term deal with Belgian firm Jan de Nul to dredge the Parana River, a government source said Friday, a move […] Read more


Grain is loaded onto ships for export at a port on the Parana River near Rosario, Argentina on Jan. 31, 2017. (File photo: Reuters/Marcos Brindicci)
Crops

Argentina forms agency to manage cargo river, grain exporters worry

Added bureaucracy in grain shipping feared

By Hugh Bronstein, Maximilian Heath August 25, 2021
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina said on Wednesday it had formed a new government agency to manage dredging operations needed to ensure navigation of the Parana River, which carries […] Read more

A Maersk ship and containers are seen at Brazil’s port of Santos on Sept. 23, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Amanda Perobelli)
Crops, Machinery

Maersk signs first green methanol deal toward dropping fossil fuels

By Reuters August 18, 2021
Copenhagen | Reuters — A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Wednesday it had signed a contract securing green methanol as the world’s largest shipping firm gears up to operate its first carbon-neutral […] Read more

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