Low levels on the Panama Canal continue to impact trade – Voice Of Muscatine

An Indiana farmer says drought in Central America continues to impact global trade.

Carey McKibben recently returned from a trip to the Panama Canal where he and other Indiana farmers got a firsthand look at the issues. “By January, they’re basically cutting the amount of ships going through the canal in half of what normally would be,” he says. “So hopefully in the spring, when the rainy season hits again, that will get some water level up and go back to normal exporting importing of.

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