Grain shipments cut 25% due to low river levels in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: The lowest waters in 77 years is reducing the amount of grain being shipped from Argentina's most import grain hub of Rosario on the Parana River.
Officials report that ships are having to reduce cargoes by 25 percent due to the low water levels, the head of the local ports chamber said on Friday.
Officials say there is no relief in sight and the area is expected to remain dry for months.
The Parana is responsible for carrying some 80 percent of Argentina's farm exports. Excessively dry weather upriver in Brazil has reduced shipping from the Parana, including soy, wheat and corn crops.
Argentine officials do not now how the low river will effect wheat exports later this year.
"Today, ships are loading about 25% less than they do when the river is at normal levels," Guillermo Wade, manager of Argentina's Chamber of Port and Maritime Activities, told Reuters.
"If the situation does not reverse, and nothing suggests that it will, we will be losing 40% of what ships usually carry when water levels are normal," he added.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: The lowest waters in 77 years is reducing the amount of grain being shipped from Argentina's most import grain hub of Rosario on the Parana River.
Officials report that ships are having to reduce cargoes by 25 percent due to the low water levels, the head of the local ports chamber said on Friday.
Officials say there is no relief in sight and the area is expected to remain dry for months.
The Parana is responsible for carrying some 80 percent of Argentina's farm exports. Excessively dry weather upriver in Brazil has reduced shipping from the Parana, including soy, wheat and corn crops.
Argentine officials do not now how the low river will effect wheat exports later this year.
"Today, ships are loading about 25% less than they do when the river is at normal levels," Guillermo Wade, manager of Argentina's Chamber of Port and Maritime Activities, told Reuters.
"If the situation does not reverse, and nothing suggests that it will, we will be losing 40% of what ships usually carry when water levels are normal," he added.
#Argentina #SupplyChain
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Grain shipments cut 25% due to low river levels in Argentina
Ships leaving the Argentine grain hub of Rosario on the Parana River are having to reduce cargoes by 25% due to very low water levels.
South America crops in poor condition, yields trending down.
Failures in nearly all breadbaskets as we enter a worldwide food crisis.
#Brazil #Argentina #corn #soybeans
Failures in nearly all breadbaskets as we enter a worldwide food crisis.
#Brazil #Argentina #corn #soybeans