Shipping container shortages are preventing one of the world’s largest ag manufacturers from fulfilling customer orders.
Leif Magnusson, senior vice president of the Americas with CLAAS, tells Brownfield after nearly a year-and-a-half since COVID-19 began, supply is still not meeting demand. “As companies were planning for demand, I think they were cautious in their planning, and I think that communication to suppliers that they were going to see some curtailment in manufacturing.”
He says the company has tried to use other points of entry besides east or west coast ports.
