{"id":3170,"date":"2014-06-05T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/us-infrastructure-issues-a-customers-view\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:37:30","slug":"us-infrastructure-issues-a-customers-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/us-infrastructure-issues-a-customers-view\/","title":{"rendered":"US Infrastructure Issues: A Customer\u2019s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. exporters are well aware of the growing infrastructure problems including a maintenance backlog, the need for modernization, railcar shortages and weather induced delays. Long the envy of the world, U.S. export infrastructure is showing the signs of age. Our customers abroad are starting to feel the effects, and increasingly are voicing their concerns. <\/p>\n<p> Colombia is one example. A close-to-home market, Colombia has been experiencing increasing logistics and infrastructure challenges when trying to import U.S. coarse grains and co-products \u2013 challenges that need to be resolved to ensure timely deliveries. The U.S. Grains Council will address this topic with speaker, Juan Jaramillo, vice president of purchases and logistics for Solla, a major Colombian feed miller, at its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grains.org\/news-and-events\/events\/54th-annual-board-delegates-meeting\">54th Annual Board of Delegates Meeting<\/a> in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 28-30, 2014.<!--break--><\/p>\n<p>Solla, one of the top three feed millers in Colombia, imports 820,000 metric tons of feed grains and produces 1.4 million tons of feed per year. Colombian end-users, including Solla, have been experiencing delays this year in receiving U.S. corn. With Colombia\u2019s corn imports up more than 2,200 percent from September 2013 to April 2014 over the same time period last year, improvements to the U.S. logistics system needs to be a priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colombia is an important and changing market,&#8221; said Alan Tiemann, USGC secretary\/treasurer. \u201cRatification of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grains.org\/news\/20130926\/us-colombia-agreement-yields-purchase-us-corn-usgc-program-fosters-6-million-corn\">U.S.-Columbia Free Trade Agreemen<\/a>t is helping U.S. market share rebound. This is a solid partnership, and one that we want to make even stronger.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grains.org\/news-and-events\/events\/54th-annual-board-delegates-meeting\/event-registration\">Register <\/a>today to hear Jaramillo speak on this timely, close-to-home topic. Don\u2019t forget, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grains.org\/news-and-events\/events\/54th-annual-board-delegates-meeting\/hotel-information\">&nbsp;hotel room block <\/a>deadline is June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. exporters are well aware of the growing infrastructure problems including a maintenance backlog, the need for modernization, railcar shortages and weather induced delays. Long the envy of the world, U.S. export infrastructure is showing the signs of age. Our customers abroad are starting to feel the effects, and increasingly are voicing their concerns. Colombia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/us-infrastructure-issues-a-customers-view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Infrastructure Issues: A Customer\u2019s View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"commodity":[12],"country":[],"region":[50],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","commodity-corn","region-south-america"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Infrastructure Issues: A Customer\u2019s View - Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/us-infrastructure-issues-a-customers-view\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Infrastructure Issues: A Customer\u2019s View - Am\u00e9rica Latina\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. exporters are well aware of the growing infrastructure problems including a maintenance backlog, the need for modernization, railcar shortages and weather induced delays. 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