(Source: Ag Web Farm Journal, July 22, 2022)
Containers are piling up around the country and trains are waiting for longer stretches at depots, the Wall Street Journal reports, frustrating industrial shippers and exacerbating delays across U.S. supply chains. Railroad executives are citing the tight labor market while existing employees say they are overworked and that wage increases are long overdue. Shippers say they started to suffer substandard service levels last fall and complained to federal regulators about delays disrupting the production and delivery of everything from ethanol to grain and livestock feed.
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