Container straintests ag export logistics network

Andrew Marshall
Updated February 15 2017 - 1:59pm, first published 5:30am
Current peak container freight rates may add at least $20 a tonne to cereal and pulse export shipping costs, and nearly $5 a bale for cotton.
Current peak container freight rates may add at least $20 a tonne to cereal and pulse export shipping costs, and nearly $5 a bale for cotton.

The farm commodity export pipeline is straining to cope as a monster grain crop clashes with a shortage of suitable shipping containers and the unhelpful consequences of an early Chinese New Year.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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