Import container volume to increase 10% in March

March 12, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in on March 13, 2012 from http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z6090650253&z=1250249027 U.S. ports followed by Global Port Tracker handled 1.22 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units in January, the latest month for which after-the-fact numbers are available. That was up 4.4 percent from December and 1.3 percent from January 2011. One TEU is one 20-foot cargo container or its equivalent. The Trucker News Services WASHINGTON €“ Import cargo volume at the nation€™s major retail container ports is expected to increase 10 percent in March compared with the same month last year, and year-over-year gains should continue through mid-summer, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation

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