U.S. loaded seaborne container imports in July, up 11.2% from June and 16.8% ahead of the same month last year to the highest level for box imports since May 2022, according to Descartes. Read more
WSJ – Logistics Report “Number of the Day”: Espionage Alarms Over Port Cranes; Red Sea Shipping Crisis Gets Fatal
Alarms over potential Chinese espionage through port container cranes are growing. A congressional probe identified communications equipment on some of the container-handling equipment, the WSJ’s Dustin Volz reports, fueling concerns that the commercial cranes...
WSJ – Number of the Day
U.S. container imports in December 2023, in 20-foot equivalent units, down 9.2% from the year before but up 0.4% from November 2023, leaving U.S. annual import volume down 11.7% last year compared with 2022, according to Descartes Datamyne.