News / Pain for US importers appears far from over as seasonal stock pours in

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Retailers are concerned about delays to their holiday merchandise, as robust import volumes are straining the US west coast gateways.

In particular, they claim, the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach is already struggling with lengthening transit times.

According to the Port Tracker report, published monthly by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates, US container ports handled 2.1m teu of imports in August, up 9.7% month on month, and 8% year on year, to reach the highest monthly ...