Some shippers opting for longer, more expensive alternate routes

Alternative routes being used to avoid Houthi attacks on the Red Sea

Project adds 400 meters of siding to accommodate larger grain trains

Drought, conflict and politics making grain transportation more difficult

Port Windsor project will expand capacity, expedite traffic flow

Effort to help Ukraine export grain along alternative route amid war with Russia

Increase is partly due to surge in grain shipments from Ukraine

Suring barge rates account for most of quarterly increase

Water levels not as low as anticipated

Closures had begun to ‘ripple back’ into the supply chain