Source: Mary Kennedy, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 3/1/21


In a joint letter written to President Biden on Feb. 24, 2021, the Specialty Soya & Grains Alliance (SSGA), Agriculture Transportation Coalition and 70 other agriculture associations made an urgent plea, asking for intervention into the container shipping crisis that has severely injured food and other U.S. ag and forestry exports that our international customers are depending on. The letter points out that ocean carriers are enjoying their most profitable period in decades, "charging unprecedented freight rates (and) imposing draconian fees on our exporters and importers,"

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