While the global winegrape broker is hopeful that the Covid virus may be in the proc4ess of transmuting itself from a pandemic to an endemic, similar to the flu, it describes the worldwide shipping container shortage as a “crisis.” “Trucking, warehouse and port terminal capacity have been widely inadequate in dealing with the return to full demand,” Ciatti said.
Ciatti’s Robert Selby said the wine industry this year must boost retail prices to cover the rising costs of record freight rates and other supply chain woes.