
Lasher strikes at Rotterdam halted container terminal operations on October 8, 2025, and Belgian harbour pilots began a slowdown at Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ghent on October 5 over pension reforms. Maersk warned of serious vessel delays for northern European ports.
Port delays in northern Europe raise shipping times and costs for imported feed raw materials, which can widen delivered premiums for soybean meal and other feed inputs into the EU.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 167 past bullish logistics events, Soybean Meal moved a median +0.5% over 5 sessions (54% higher; middle half -1.8% to +2.9%), and -1.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.