Insights and Stories on Grain Shipping

St. Lawrence traffic to resume as tentative labour deal reached

Oct. 30, 2023 at 11:58 am CDT

A week-long strike by about 360 unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway ended Monday morning with a tentative agreement on a new labour deal. The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) and Unifor, the union representing the workers, announced the new agreement separately Sunday evening. Unionized workers had been […]

Seaway workers’ strike underway

Oct. 22, 2023 at 9:36 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Seaway to seek order exempting grain traffic from strike action

Oct. 20, 2023 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Seaway workers serve strike notice

Oct. 19, 2023 at 7:56 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Britain says Russia may target civilian shipping with mines in Black Sea

Oct. 4, 2023 at 7:01 pm CDT

By Reuters

Russia’s leverage on grain to decline, senior U.S. official says

Sep. 21, 2023 at 5:06 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Russia’s leverage over Ukraine’s export of grain via the Black Sea will likely erode in weeks to come as more ships are able to leave Ukrainian ports and rising costs could prompt Moscow to reconsider its abandonment of the grain deal, a senior U.S. State […]

By Daphne Psaledakis Humeyra Pamuk

Thunder Bay grain shipments up on year

Sep. 13, 2023 at 1:45 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Grain shipments through the Port of Thunder Bay are running well ahead of the year-ago level, with 3.747 million tonnes of grain shipped through the port on the northern shores of Lake Superior as of Aug. 31. That was up by 1.1 million tonnes from the previous year’s […]

By MarketsFarm

UN working on guarantees for Russia to restore grain deal, Moscow skeptical

Sep. 7, 2023 at 3:27 pm CDT

Reuters — The United Nations is “actively engaged” in trying to improve Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports in a bid to convince Moscow to again allow the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. “We believe that it’s necessary to create a system of mutual […]

By Michelle Nichols

Panama Canal water levels at historic lows, restrictions to remain

Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:29 am CDT

Panama City | Reuters — The Panama Canal’s water levels have not recovered enough as the end of the rainy season approaches and limits on daily transit and vessel draft will stay in place for the rest of the year and throughout 2024, the waterway’s authority said on Tuesday. The […]

By Elida Moreno

Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port

Aug. 23, 2023 at 10:18 am CDT

Reuters – Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the port’s export capacity had been […]

By Pavel Polityuk

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Insights and Stories on Grain Shipping

St. Lawrence traffic to resume as tentative labour deal reached

Seaway workers’ strike underway

Seaway to seek order exempting grain traffic from strike action

Seaway workers serve strike notice

Britain says Russia may target civilian shipping with mines in Black Sea

Russia’s leverage on grain to decline, senior U.S. official says

Thunder Bay grain shipments up on year

UN working on guarantees for Russia to restore grain deal, Moscow skeptical

Panama Canal water levels at historic lows, restrictions to remain

Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port

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