Market Talks: Port waiting time raises fertilizer freight rates

Author Argus

The high number of vessels waiting to dock on Brazil’s main ports contributes to higher truck freight rates for fertilizers.

Join Camila Dias, Argus Brazil Bureau Chief, and Joao Petrini, a reporter for the Argus Brazil Grains and Fertilizer publication. They talk about the logistic bottleneck that has been driving prices for fertilizer transportation to raise by up to 40% in some of the country’s main routes.

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(Podcast episode is in Portuguese.)

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