Blank sailings threaten to sink heartland ag exports

Apr 29, 2020 at 08:56 AM CST - 1
Bob Sinner, president of SB&B Foods in Casselton, North Dakota, has spent the past two decades developing his business into a successful global ocean container shipper of specialty food-grade soybeans. However, Sinner has always been pressed to ensure that his business in the American heartland has adequate access to 20-foot containers, which are vital to filling his high-end customers’ orders. With the ocean container industry now in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, he is worried that insufficient access to ocean containers could sink his season.

Apr 29, 2020 at 08:56 AM CST

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Bob Sinner, president of SB&B Foods in Casselton, North Dakota, has spent the past two decades developing his business into a successful global ocean container shipper of specialty food-grade soybeans. However, Sinner has always been pressed to ensure that his business in the American heartland has adequate access to 20-foot containers, which are vital to filling his high-end customers’ orders. With the ocean container industry now in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, he is worried that insufficient access to ocean containers could sink his season.