It’s not just the US. And it’s not just ocean shipping.
Read about the gyrations Antwerp and Rotterdam and the river barge operators are going through.
By Alexander Whiteman 27/09/2021
Ocean terminal and inland congestion forces river barges to store boxes – The Loadstar
Posted in Logistics, Shipping, Sustainability
Tagged barge transport, container shipping, delays, empty containers, intermodal, Logistics, port management, supply chains
A new study by the US Maritime Commission on the problems with lock outages in our inland river waterways. If we don’t maintain the locks, we lose competitive advantage in agricultural products particularly; for instance costs of exporting soybeans goes up and lets Brazil become the cheapest source.
I’ve included a link to the pdf of the study below.
via NWF, MarAd release study on unscheduled lock outages
BY HAILEY DESORMEAUX |THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2017
PDF of study:
Posted in Logistics, Shipping, Supply Chains, Sustainability
Tagged agriculture, barge transport, economics, infrastructure, locks and dams, soybeans, transportation
Supply Chain Digest Port Technology International Marine Link
Supply Chain and Logistics 