US needs national containerised export strategy as numbers keep falling
Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka underlines the importance of developing a national export policy, saying containerised imports outnumber exports by a factor of five to one
The port’s July 2021 loaded imports increased 2.9%, loaded exports decreased 27.6% becoming the port’s lowest number of export containers since 2005, and unloaded empties climbed 20.4% due to the continued demand for equipment in Asia