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SHIPPING BACKUPS
" There is a labor shortage across
the board, " said William Duggan, the
North American cold chain advisor
for Eskesen Advisory. " That's for rail,
trucking, warehouses (and) all the way
to the terminal - we just don't have
enough workers. "
Agriculture labor challenges are
nothing new to growers, but
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" There is a labor shortage across the
board. That's for rail, trucking, warehouses
(and) all the way to the terminal - we just
don't have enough workers. "
- WILLIAM DUGGAN, ESKESEN ADVISORY
the
shortage of workers now extends to
most industries in the supply chain,
including cold chain facilities and
packaging materials, much of which
are imported from Asia.
" It all comes back to labor, " Lapage
said.
There are about 5,000 shipping
vessels worldwide. When hundreds
are idle offshore and full of cargo, those
ships and containers on them aren't
available to transport anything else.
" There are shippers
in Brazil
wondering when they'll be able to ship
a crop because they can't find any
containers, " Lapage said.
In North America, moving product
by truck has been hampered by the
well-documented driver shortage. Like
in other industries, the pandemic has
worsened worker availability.
Canad ian offic ia l s recent ly
implemented a full-vaccinat ion
mandate for U.S. truck drivers entering
the country. The U.S. responded with a
similar mandate for Canadian drivers,
which went into effect in late January.
The Canadian Trucking Association
estimates the mandates will affect about
12,000 U.S. and Canadian drivers. The
current fully vaccinated rate is 80% in
Canada and 64% in the U.S.
Lapage noted that unvaccinated drivers
choosing to get the vaccine still have to
wait two weeks until after their second
dose to resume international driving.
" This is potentially catastrophic
for Canada, " Lapage said. " We rely so
heavily on U.S. (produce) imports. ...
Even drivers getting the vaccine now,
you're still looking at six weeks before
they can resume cross-border freight. "
Freight opt ion shortages and
economic inflation have freight prices
shooting up. Ed Treacy, the IFPA's
vice president of supply chain and
sustainability, relayed an account from
an apple shipper who recently paid
$15,000 to move a load of apples from
Washington to Boston.
" That's unheard of! " Treacy said.
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