This year’s Transportation Go! conference will be held in Minneapolis on Wednesday and Thursday. Specialty Soya Grains Alliance Executive Director Randy Duckworth says the conference is a chance for the soybean industry to discuss transportation issues. “We’ve got some fantastic speakers such as Gene Seroka, the CEO of the Port of L.A.; Daniel Maffei, the head of the Federal Maritime Commission, and Robert Primus from the Surface Transportation Board, and several others.” Tariffs and port fees are expected to be the talk of the event. “Fees that the current administration is proposing to be placed on Chinese vessels coming to the U.S. have potential to affect the transportation industry significantly. Availability of containers is always a huge issue in the Midwest, and you know we’re always just trying to find solutions for that so that’ll be a big one for us for sure.”
