Work stoppages at Argentine grain export ports spread

After picketing workers in San Lorenzo now also tugboat operators at the ports of Bahia Blanca and Quequen in southern Buenos Aires Province going on strike. The Bahia Blanca and Quequen ports are home to significant loading facilities for wheat, most of which is shipped to Brazil.

Tugboat workers at the two ports were refusing to provide services to grain loading terminals, but the rest of the port facilities are unaffected, an official at Argentina's port authority said. Cargill Inc, Argentina's leading grain exporter, has its port blocked, and Terminal 6 is blocked as well, which is owned by Aceitera General Deheza SA and Bunge Ltd. and is one of the largest soybean crushing and loading facilities in the area. Read more ...

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