An analysis of quarterly and monthly Labor Department data puts trucking employment at 2019 levels, and that could signal a quicker change in capacity if freight increases.
Hapag-Lloyd said in an advisory that ships were already waiting up to 60 hours to berth at Shanghai and up 48 hours to berth in Ningbo due to vessel bunching ahead of the storm.
Ports and ocean carriers are now figuring out the playbook for how to handle what would be the first strike to hit the US East and Gulf coasts in nearly half a century.