Canadian Shippers Find Few Easy Alternatives for Grain, Oil Cut Off by Flood

Canadian Shippers Find Few Easy Alternatives for Grain, Oil Cut Off by Flood
A person riding a Sea-Doo passes through a flooded farm after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada on Nov. 16, 2021. Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Canadian exporters of commodities from grain to fertilizer and oil scrambled on Wednesday to divert shipments away from Port of Vancouver, which floods have isolated, but they found few easy alternatives.

The disaster, which has killed at least one person, has caused the latest blockage in the congested global supply chain, driving up inflation fears ahead of the holiday shopping season.