Global supply chain issues have a new culprit: the Mississippi River
💧 Global supply chain issues have a new culprit: the Mississippi River.
Though disrupted supply chains are nothing new, the main waterway from Minnesota to Louisiana has been the victim of record-low water levels due to very little rainfall. This drought situation has only increased as the situation persisted throughout October and the barges that usually depend on the Mississippi to transport key commodities such as petroleum, woof, coffee, corn, soybeans, iron, and chemicals are in danger of running around in the sand. Approximately 60% of all grain exported from the United States is moved through the Mississippi River, and with the Midwest’s harvest being lodged in the waterway… the rest of the world deals with another slow stream of grain as winter approaches.
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