The sight is an odd one. Straddling a pair of 8,000-foot tracks where BNSF Railway wide-span cranes are supposed to unload and load intermodal trains at Logistics Park Chicago, international containers are stacked three high in a line that extends as far as the eye can see. The boxes awaiting pickup are the equivalent of 10 double-stack trains of imported goods. And the total number of containers dwelling at the terminal - an average of 7,816 per day in July -has nearly doubled since March.
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