Brazil strike exposes inadequate rail network, shipper vulnerabilities
Estimates of the strike’s cost to shippers, from beef exporters to white goods importers, range from $5 billion to $15 billion. Photo credit: Rob Ward.
The more than week-long, nationwide Brazilian truck strike and blockade in late May laid bare the country’s inability to shore up its containerized rail network, increasing…
Brazil strike exposes inadequate rail network, shipper vulnerabilities
Journal of Commerce