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About 101 vessels were waiting to transit the Panama Canal, six more than the year's average. Canal traffic rose 18% in April, and Suez Canal transits rose 6.3% year-on-year in April.
Persistent canal queues and congestion raise shipping times and costs for grain and feed ingredients moving between the Americas and Asia. This supports higher freight rates.
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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.