Port strikes in Argentina fire up again

About three-quarters of Argentina's agriculture exports are shipped from river ports clustered around Rosario and nearby San Lorenzo. Argentina is the world’s leading soy meal and soy oil exporter and is third-largest in soybean exports.

The cooperative that employs the picketing workers is demanding that grain exporters pay more for the port services it provides. Argentine port workers this week continued to picket two important grain ports at a key shipping center north of the city of Rosario. A dispute over service fees is causing the strike. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.