The Federal Maritime Commission has agreed to extend the comment period on requests that the government develop and release container freight rate indexes for U.S. agricultural exports based on a sampling of service contracts filed with the agency. Originally, comments were due by July 9, but after a request for a two-week extension by the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, and a 30-day extension by the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, the FMC sai...