# Grain leads early shipping season | Business - Supply Chain Council of European Union | Scceu.org

> Great Lakes shipping season opened in March 2022 with late-season ice and snarled supply chains slowing traffic. Port of Green Bay tonnage for March and April fell 21 percent year over year, and a vessel loaded about 21,600 short tons of wheat at Superior, Wisconsin.

- Date: 2022-06-05 · published 2022-06-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/16702-grain-leads-early-shipping-season-business-supply-chain-council-of-european
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Slower Great Lakes grain logistics can tighten regional wheat and grain movement to export, modestly supporting local basis and freight costs.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2025-01-28 | [Rail strike disrupts supply chain \| The Business Standard](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26506-rail-strike-disrupts-supply-chain-the-business-standard.md) | +0.6% | +1.9% |
| WHEAT | 2017-08-14 | [CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang advises on a landmark financing of a new grain terminal construction project in Yuzhni port - U.S.-Ukraine Business Council](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69297-cms-cameron-mckenna-nabarro-olswang-advises-on-a-landmark-financing-of-a-new.md) | +0.4% | -0.1% |
| WHEAT | 2017-01-16 | [Vessels of Project RSD49, Neva-Leader type, were actively used by North-Western Shipping Company for grain transportation in 2016](https://feedsoft.ai/events/72855-vessels-of-project-rsd49-neva-leader-type-were-actively-used-by-north-western.md) | +0.4% | +5.6% |
| WHEAT | 2018-12-04 | [Ukraine: last season, the Mykolaiv seaport covered more than 30% of the general grain exports -](https://feedsoft.ai/events/61438-ukraine-last-season-the-mykolaiv-seaport-covered-more-than-30-of-the-general.md) | -0.3% | +1.5% |
| WHEAT | 2022-05-24 | [Wheat industry shines light on rail shipping challenges](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41439-wheat-industry-shines-light-on-rail-shipping-challenges.md) | -0.7% | -2.5% |

## Sources

- scceu.org: https://scceu.org/grain-leads-early-shipping-season-business/

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