US ports continued to lose market share to competitors in Mexico and Canada last year as shippers and forwarders sought alternative, less-disrupted North American gateways. While total North American container traffic grew by a modest 1.6% to 40.6m teu in 2015, Mexican ports handled 5.1% more inbound and outbound containers while Canadian ports saw growth of 4.1%. In contrast US ports handled just 0.8% more containers last year. The figures are contained in the Federal Maritime Commission's fourth annual update of its Study of the US Inland Containerized Cargo Moving Through Canadian and Mexican Seaports, first published in 2012.
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