News / Congestion looms at US ports as shops and factories close and imports pile up

31/03/2020

The repercussions of Covid-19 have begun to hit US imports.

As retail outlets, as well as many manufacturing operations, in North America are shuttered, anticipation of a surge of imports to compensate for China’s extended lunar new year hiatus are quickly disappearing.

Instead, as more containers arrive, ...

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