![]() ports-buoyed by moves into East Coast ports.Īccording to his analysis, big winners from the shift have been Charleston, Houston and Norfolk, all showing imports (measured in the TEU’s) up over 30%. In his mid-March edition, he talks about a 15.6% inbound cargo gain in February, 2022 (month on month, compared to the previous year) for the ten largest U.S. John McCown, an industry veteran with decades in liner shipping (his mentor was Malcom McLean, the inventor of containerization), provides excellent insights into these flows with his monthly McCown Container Volume Observer. bound cargo inbound to East Coast ports over the past nine months-since mid-2021. ![]() The cargo has been shifting not surprisingly, cargo interests are paying more on the ocean freight component (though less on the land portion of moves), and routing more U.S. Noted names like and Maersk and Sea-Intelligence (closely tied to the Maersk organization) have hinted that “things will get back to normal” later in the year, with the latter suggesting that overall “reliability “(think about adherence to schedules) is presently down to low levels, circa 30%, not seen in more than a decade. The queues of anchored vessels on the West Coast are shrinking- now with a “60” or “70” handle, down from the print of over 100 vessels at end 2021.
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