Restocking boosts January US port activity

The past few years have brought plenty of questions as to whether the COVID-19 pandemic changed supply chains permanently or, once constraints eased, if supply chains would return to pre-pandemic patterns. Those answers are starting to reveal themselves as the ports release January figures.

The biggest East Coast port, the Port of New York and New Jersey, retained its place as the second-busiest port in the country in terms of loaded imports, only surpassed by the Port of Los Angeles.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/restocking-boosts-january-us-port-activity

Weekly US intermodal volumes appear to be leveling off sequentially

A photograph of a rail yard with city skyscrapers in the background.

U.S. intermodal traffic continues to boost overall rail volumes, although trailers have been leveling off on a sequential basis in recent weeks.

The U.S. freight railroads originated 293,746 intermodal containers and trailers for the week ending Saturday, up 10.3% from the same period in 2019, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

But according to FreightWaves’ SONAR, which graphs data from AAR, intermodal trailers’ volumes have been trending lower in October than September,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/weekly-us-intermodal-volumes-appear-to-be-leveling-off-sequentially

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