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'Instead of routing through West Coast ports, more of these shipments are heading to ports on the East Coast, simply shifting capacity issues from West to East. 'We are already seeing some front loading, with Asian manufacturers shipping out goods early to mitigate predicted port congestion,' explained Pervinder Johar, CEO of Blume Global. The Port of New York and New Jersey has greatly benefited from this trend. The continued congestion on the West Coast has increased the flow of trade to the East Coast and Gulf ports. Union Pacific recently told the Surface Transportation Board it has met almost half of its 2022 goal to hire 1,400 new train crew members. According to Greg Regan, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, around one-thousand workers have resigned since February. BNSF has been embroiled in a labor dispute over its attendance policy for months.

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'Some people have been granted two-hour permits to go food shopping but the majority remain under full lockdown.'īNSF and Union Pacific serve the Port of Los Angeles. 'This gradual reopening greatly depends on the number of cases in your area and building,' said Jasmine Wall, general manager of Growth, Marketing & Communications, Asia Pacific, at SEKO Logistics. The gradual relaxing of Shanghai's lockdown is slated to start June 1, but details are vague. Automakers Volkswagen, Mazda, General Motors have also had to scale back production as a result.

The company announced its May production for both Lexus and Toyotas would be cut due to the lockdowns. Toyota had to halt production in eight factories in Japan for the same reason. Tesla announced last week it was forced to reduce its vehicle production in its Shanghai because of the lack of parts. The heat map tracks all of the critical pieces within the supply chain: factory capacity, vessel availability, container availability, trucking capacity, port productivity, vessel transit time and rail capacity. A container at rest means inventory issues. imports.Trade is a forward-looking indicator of a country's economic health as well as a company's supply chain. 'It's really extraordinary,' CEO Søren Skou said last week of the demand for U.S. Maersk also expects the import frenzy to continue. This is in line with a forecast from the National Retail Federation, which expects record-breaking import levels through the first six months of 2021. The latest forecast from the Port of Los Angeles shows the heavy stream of containers continuing through February, and Seroka said the backlog created at the port could continue into the summer, as a result. The import levels are well above the pre-tariff import levels seen in early 2019, as importers tried to beat an increase in fees, which also resulted in congestion and equipment shortages. Spending has shifted away from services, such as movies and restaurants to physical goods, generating record-breaking import levels at the nation's water gateways. The high import levels are a result of increased consumer spending and retailers working to restock their inventory. 'The spike in imports is unprecedented in scale, breaking new records on a monthly basis,' Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka told the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners this month.