Retail Container Traffic to Bounce Back this Spring

摘要

With the winding down of the holiday spending season, import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be nearly flat during January compared with the same month last year. But "significant year-over-year increases" are expected come springtime, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. "We're headed into the slow season for cargo shipments, but forecasts indicate that retailers will be stocking up this spring in anticipation of a moderate recovery as the year progresses," said Jonathan Gold, NRF vp for supply chain and customs policy. "Cargo volume doesn't translate directly into sales volume, but when retailers import more it's because they expect to sell more."