US – China trade war affects intermodal container activity

According to Intermodal Association of North America (IANA), its activity was weak during the second quarter of 2019. IANA’s estimate concerning the intermodal container activity highlights the deepening of the freight recession that railroads and trucking companies saw in the 2019 second quarter.

In general, although the East Coast ports took a larger share of the import container trade, IANA supported that volume in the trans-Pacific trade lane remains weak due to the U.S.-China trade war, whic...

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