Port congestion, shipping container issues to persist through the year

The head of the Soy Transportation Coalition doesn’t expect West Coast port congestion and shipping container shortages to clear up anytime soon. Mike Steenhoek tells Brownfield weather, labor and pandemic-related challenges will likely remain through 2022. “We’re attaching a garden hose to a fire hydrant right now,” he says. “We’ve got a lot of product on both the outbound and inbound of high demand but yet we have an infrastructure that’s not well positioned to accommodate...