The Global Food Trade Has Been Upended by a Container Crisis
- Some food prices could go up if costs are passed to consumer
- Three in four containers leaving Los Angeles to Asia are empty
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Food is piling up in all the wrong places, thanks to carriers hauling empty shipping containers.