Mario Cordero, chief executive officer of the Port of Long Beach, said recently: "Our throughput in April hit a new high for the year and achieved eight consecutive months of growth."
Mario Cordero also emphasised that the Port of Long Beach's first quarter throughput performance was very good. When the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles are combined, container throughput at the two ports increased 23 percent in the first quarter of the year.
It is understood that the previous impact of the U.S. West Terminal negotiations transferred to the U.S. East Coast of the goods, is returning to the U.S. West market, the U.S. West Coast imports are climbing month by month.
At the same time, the National Retail Federation (NRF) raised its forecast for containerised imports throughout the summer and early autumn in the U.S. NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said: "In the last two years, we've never seen such a high level of imports."
According to data released by China's General Administration of Customs, in the first four months of this year, China's exports to the U.S. totalled 1.08 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.4 per cent, with a trade surplus of 692.41 billion yuan, an expansion of 5.4 per cent year-on-year, showing that China's exports to the U.S. continue to maintain a steady growth in the North American shipping lines to play a long-term support for the demand for transport.
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