Container shortage leading to break-bulk shipping

There has been an all-out fight for freight ever since the recommencement of the staggering economy amid the pandemic and a boom in online buying. Obtaining shipping containers for moving coffee has been heavy on the pockets in the best scenario while in the worst, containers have been unobtainable, only adding fuel to the prices. It is believed that in the future, roasters are more likely to start utilizing old-school shipping without containers.
To solve the long plaguing shipping bottlenecks, many shippers are adjusting to this new shipping modality, despite the complexity.
Handling of bags instead of containers is much harder, from the inland transportation in the origin to the reception at the destination, as only a handful of the ports are equipped to lift the bags from a vessel’s hold.
A first of its kind in over 20 years, a break-bulk vessel named Eagle has found its way from Lampung in Sumatra, through the Mediterranean, and is now headed for New Orleans, transporting robusta coffee bags stacked in its hold to the U.S., garnering a lot of attention. The ship-part of a burgeoning experiment is a hope for the industry where producers, roasters, and traders are looking to leapfrog a global container shortage that’s causing an unprecedented backlog of shipments.