Yara want to move to 750 kg bags

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PSQ

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If the bags are wider they won’t fit 3 across the wagon. If they’re taller, especially urea, they will be too tall to lift with forks under a curtain sider roof.

Are they moving to a bag size that will only fit 2 across the wagon bed, or will it only be be for products other than urea?
 

neilo

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If the bags are wider they won’t fit 3 across the wagon. If they’re taller, especially urea, they will be too tall to lift with forks under a curtain sider roof.

Are they moving to a bag size that will only fit 2 across the wagon bed, or will it only be be for products other than urea?

Presumably it would have to be taller bags. If they were a wider, so you could only fit 2 across the bed, they also couldn't fit as many rows down the bed, let alone the extra 4 rows (?) they'd need to compensate for the lack of width. They'd end up running round with lorries underweight, increasing haulage costs.
 

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