US port strike poses significant fertilizer supply chain risks: trade group

The looming port strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association that threatens to shut down ports across the US East Coast and Gulf Coast starting Oct. 1, could cause “significant” disruption to the fertilizer trade, according to the The Fertilizer Institute, a US-based trade group. ILA said its dockworkers are set to hit picket lines Oct. 1 over “an unacceptable wage…The looming port strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association that threatens to shut down ports across the US East Coast and Gulf Coast starting Oct. 1, could cause “significant” disruption to the fertilizer trade, according to the The Fertilizer Institute, a US-based trade group. ILA said its dockworkers are set to hit picket lines Oct. 1 over “an unacceptable wage…Read More