Comment / Brazil's JBS – world's largest food shipper turns port operator

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Something is lurking in the shadows of yesterday’s Loadstar story about APM Terminals launching a court case in Brazil to lift the restriction on it bidding for the forthcoming Tecon 10 concession in Santos.

Let’s bring it out it into the sunshine shall we? Step forward mega-sized Brazilian food producer JBS, which appears to be in the early stages of a vertical supply chain integration push.

Largely unknown outside the food industry – and by extension the shipping sector – this is ...