US agricultural sector criticizes container lines

It cuts into US agricultural and forestry exporters' earnings when container lines do not sufficiently communicate when the exporters are able to drop off their containers at port terminals, reveals a survey by Agriculture Transportation Coalition.
Photo: Stine Bidstrup/ERH
Photo: Stine Bidstrup/ERH

In a new survey, container shipping lines face criticism for inflicting additional costs onto to the US agricultural and forestry sector due to the shipping lines being too poor at providing specific times for when containers must be dropped off at a port terminal.

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