Insights and Stories on Shipments

Container rates soar on concerns of prolonged Red Sea disruption, inflation

Jan. 12, 2024 at 1:43 pm CST

Container shipping rates for key global trade routes have soared this week, with U.S. and UK air strikes on Yemen stirring fears of a prolonged disruption to global trade in Red Sea, one of the world's busiest routes, industry officials said on Friday.

Pork sector calls for essential service status amid B.C. port strike

Jul. 11, 2023 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Thunder Bay reports rare inbound grain shipment

Sep. 2, 2021 at 7:13 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Pulse weekly outlook: Container crisis affecting markets, shipments

Jul. 14, 2021 at 5:10 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

U.S. says it would ban pig shipments if swine fever detected

Mar. 6, 2020 at 6:13 pm CST

By Reuters

Fraser: Rail blockades should be a lesson for all

Feb. 20, 2020 at 2:18 pm CST

Our latest so-called national crisis led to calls for police to arrest protesters and tear down blockades, but perhaps we should be thinking about how to prevent conflicts like this from happening in the first place. It’s amazing how much can change in just a few days. Canada’s Agriculture Day […]

By D.C. Fraser

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise on pork shipments to China

Dec. 19, 2019 at 4:10 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures strengthened on Thursday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported shipments of U.S. pork to China last week reached their highest in at least 10 months. Traders and analysts are focusing on exports to China because it is the world’s top pork consumer […]

By Tom Polansek

Grain vessel lineup rising at Vancouver

Oct. 3, 2018 at 9:08 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The lineup of grain vessels waiting for loading at Vancouver increased to 21 for Week 8 of the grain shipping season. Reports by Quorum Corp., which monitors Prairie grain handling, stated vessels at Vancouver were up 31 per cent from the previous week (17). The increase in […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Strings seen attached to India’s extended fumigation deadline

Jun. 29, 2017 at 4:03 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– India has extended its Friday deadline on a requirement that all pulse shipments to that country be fumigated with methyl bromide — but it wasn’t quite the good news the Canadian pulse industry had hoped to hear. “India has basically extended the ability for exporters around the […]

By Terry Fries