Winter freeze joins pandemic as challenge for port operators — Panjiva
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Winter freeze joins pandemic as challenge for port operators

China 3063 Cons. Discr. - Autos 1255 Corp - Ports 922 Corp - Shipping 1042 European Union 890 Mexico 931 Mode - Containerized 1535 Mode - Seaborne 1853 U.S. 5418

Hapag-Lloyd has flagged continued congestion challenges at a wide range of U.S. seaports with extensive vessel queues waiting to unload at Los Angeles / Long Beach, Oakland and Savannah. That partly reflects increased demand for shipping services as well as situations where “terminals are working with limited labor and split shifts” due to COVID-19 related issues. There’s a marked disparity in recent performance between the major ports with inbound shipments to LA and Long Beach having increased by 18.3% year over year in January while those into Newark / New York ju...

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