- Author: Ria DeBiase, Communications Director, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
Published on: December 22, 2021
![A ship piled high with shipping containers sails out of a port.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food/blogfiles/87898small.jpg)
Increased U.S. demand for imported goods from Asia also led to increased demand for empty shipping containers in Asia. In September 2021, nearly 80% of all containers leaving California ports were empty – about 43% fewer filled containers leaving California’s ports than there were prior to the pandemic. Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash
New research estimates economic losses due to congestion, inefficiencies
Between wildfires, drought, a trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic, the last few years have been hard on California farmers. But recent research by agricultural economists from UC Davis and the University of Connecticut suggests that economic losses to California agriculture from recent supply chain disruptions may have an even greater economic impact.
In an article titled “‘Containergeddon' and California Agriculture,” researchers estimate that there was a 17% decline in the value of containerized...
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