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In Wenatchee, Wash., tens of thousands of boxes of apples that should be on their way to the Middle East and Asia are piling up instead in warehouses.
Washington farm exports hampered by cargo-container shortage March 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Apples are synonymous with the state of Washington. Some Washington apple orchards cover more than 5,000 acres.Khadija Ruby // Shutterstock SEATTLE (AP) — Farm exporters in Washington state have been left with stockpiles of product and idle trucks as the pandemic has created a shortage of cargo containers. Dave Martin, export sales manager for Stemilt Growers in Wenatchee, one of the state's biggest tree-fruit exporters, said the company would ship up to 15 containers of fruit a week to Taiwan b...
Pandemic ‘doom shopping’ clogs up US ports Shipping companies are making it more difficult and costly to ship American food exports. Now, industry groups want federal regulators to clamp down on ‘unreasonable, unjust practices’. US exporters are struggling to send food abroad as the global shipping system strains under unprecedented pandemic demand. Produce is piling up in storage due to a confluence of disruptions in the international supply chain. These are the consequences when more and more American agricultural exports arrive at their destinations late, if they even make the jour...
War of words escalates as exporters scramble for scarce containers A war of words is heating up over U.S. exports, particularly food exports — and the outcome of that clash could affect U.S. containerized imports as well. Reports first surfaced in late October that carriers were rushing containers back empty from California to Asia to serve lucrative headhaul trades instead of loading U.S. export cargoes. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Michael Khouri warned in December: “We are looking into all potential responsive actions, including a review of whether ocean carriers’ actio...
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