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The Canada-U.S. border point was blocked and 150 truckloads of beef could not be transported

Protests by Canadian truck drivers against the federal mandatory vaccine policy have already had an impact on border logistics.

The latest news said that near the Canada-U.S. border in Coutts, Alberta, about 150 truckloads of beef were trapped and unable to be transported to the United States.

Starting last weekend, hundreds of vehicles appeared at the crossing between Alberta and Montana to block traffic in protest against the requirement that truck drivers crossing the border must be fully vaccinated, Bloomberg News reported.

Marie-France MacKinnon, a spokeswoman for the Meat Council of Canada, said in an email: "It is unclear what the provincial or federal government is doing to facilitate the solution. The longer the time, the more supply chain problems will arise, affecting everyone from producer to consumer,"

Federal directives to force truck drivers to vaccinate have raised concerns about transportation issues and rising freight costs, and supply chains are already under pressure from weather impacts and shortages of available workers.

The Canadian Trucking Organization estimates that as many as 90 percent of truck drivers are vaccinated, but in the United States, only about half of truck drivers are vaccinated.

Gary Sands, senior vice president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, said grocers in some parts of Canada face shortages of fruits and vegetables, while others face difficulties in supplying eggs and meat.

He said most of the shortages occur in semi-rural or remote areas that rely on trucks for deliveries.

Floods in B.C. last year, virus-related worker absenteeism and labor shortages have all disrupted the food supply chain.

Sands said on a phone call monday: "At this time, every truck missing from the supply chain is not a good thing. ”

"But truck drivers in the fleet are doing the same thing. Traffic in the southern part of the province was in disarray. What are you doing? What are you helping? We should have food fleets, not free fleets. ”