For the past 18 months, much of the industry talk has centered around the COVID-19 pandemic and its fluctuating effects on container movement, including record cargo numbers and congestion at the largest ports on the West Coast. One interesting side effect to the ongoing bottlenecks has been a growing trend of shippers looking at ports with bulk and breakbulk capabilities as a creative alternative to moving commodities. The Port of Vancouver USA, as well as the handful of ports in this feature, have seen more shippers move products in bulk and breakbulk in 2020 and 2021, many of them commodities…