Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports will be a full 25 percent higher during the first half of 2010 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report.OBAMA IS COUNTING ON AN IMPROVING ECONOMY TO PASS OBAMACARE AND JUSTIFY THE PORKULUS AND HELP HIM HOLD ON TO THE CONGRESS.An uptick in cargo volume is one sign the economy is improving, because it shows that retailers are expecting to move more merchandise this year.
The report was released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
"This is a dramatic turnaround over what we’ve seen during the past two years," said National Retail Federation Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold, in a press release.
U.S. ports handled 1.09 million 20-foot equivalent unit cargo containers in December, the latest month for which actual numbers are available. That was unchanged from November but up 2.6 percent from December 2008 to break a 28-month streak during which monthly totals were lower than the same month the year before.
January was estimated at 1.19 million units, a 17 percent increase over January 2009.
Monthly numbers would put the first half of 2010 at 7.4 million units, up 25 percent from last year’s 5.9 million.
AND THE ECONOMY WILL IMPROVE - NO TAHNKS TO HIS POLICIES. THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO ATTACK OBAMA ON OTHER FRONTS BESIDES THE ECONOMY: ON THE GWOT AND ETHICS AND HIS LEFTIST APPOINTMENTS AND SO ON.
My wife works as a freelance artist in another sector of the Container industry. She has been getting business steadily for the past four months. Before that, it was come and go.
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