Brazil: First chicken meat exports of December face problems with shipment

In the first ten days of December (from the 1st to the 10th, seven working days) Brazilian exports of chicken meat were just over 100,000 tons, a volume that represented average daily shipments of 15,560 tons, 10.24% and 6.68% unless last November (17,335 tons/day) and December 2021 (16,675 tons/day). This is also one of the lowest daily averages in the last three years. December has normally been the month with the lowest flow of shipments, either because importers are already stocked up for consumption during the Festivities or, then, because the winter in the Northern Hemisphere prevents or hinders the access of ships to some ports. But, without a doubt, this December has an additional ingredient: the heavy rains that have been hitting the south of the country and which have made it difficult for ships to access ports or interrupt land access to them (as in the case of landslides on highways in Paraná). This, of course, has directly interfered with shipments. Assuming that the ...