Supply chain inefficiencies frustrate US commodity exporters
U.S. commodity exporters are enjoying another year of especially low freight rates, but these benefits are often negated by carriers’ sloppy processing of documentation, longer transit times and inland transportation costs from the nation’s interior.
As a result, the world’s most efficient farmers, ranchers and chemical producers face the prospect of…
http://www.joc.com/international-logistics/supply-chain-inefficiencies-frustrate-us-commodity-exporters_20140627.html
Journal of Commerce