COVID-19’s disruption of the global supply chain pushed intermodal equipment at ports into storage. Since China’s manufacturing and demand have come back online, available chassis at some ports around the world have been nearly impossible to find.
“A lot of that equipment was in bad order,” said Doug Hoehn, executive vice president of chassis and containers for Milestone Equipment Holdings (Milestone), a large Missouri-based equipment lessor. “Some of it may be even in bad order to the point...
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