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Intermodal marketing companies and railroads are negotiating bid rate increases in annual agreements for 2027. Industry groups told the USTR that proposed fees on China's maritime sector would raise US transport costs, and the Journal of Commerce breakbulk ship capacity indicator fell to its lowest level since its February 2025 launch.
Rising rail and container rates and tighter breakbulk vessel capacity increase the cost of moving US agricultural and feed products to export and domestic markets. The effect on grain and feed commodity prices is modest and mostly through freight costs.
joc.comAri Ashe, Intermodal Rail }Nov 2, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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.
