Grain flow slowly resumes across the Gulf

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While most grain terminals in the region remained closed due to power outages, a large Louis Dreyfus terminal resumed loading on Tuesday, Reuters reported. As of Tuesday, Chicago, Illinois, USA-based ADM's four grain elevators and port operations remained without power, as did Bunge Ltd.'s export terminal and soybean processing plant.

The Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA-based Cargill terminal in Reserve, Louisiana, USA, upriver from New Orleans, and a site in Westwego, Louisiana, USA, in the New Orleans area sustained some damage and remained without power on Tuesday -day, as well as a terminal owned by Minnesota-based CHS Inc, Reuters said.

U.S. weekly rail traffic for the week ending Sept. 4 totaled 494,415 cars and intermodal units, down 3% from the same week in 2020, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) said in its weekly report. Loads totaled 228,203, up 3%, and intermodal volume was 266,212 containers and trailers, down 7%, both compared to the same week in 2020.

By: Leonardo Gottems | agrolink