Dear President Biden: 'please help us' – love, US exporters

13/09/2021

Some 76 agricultural and related-industry exporters have written to President Biden to urge the US administration to do more to solve the supply chain crisis. While noting positive steps by transport secretary Pete Buttigieg and the FMC, they added that further actions were required. They explained: “Carriers are increasingly declining or cancelling export cargo bookings, while frequent ship delays and cancellations with little or no notice to our exporters are delaying shipments by weeks or even months.

“The resulting inability of ...