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Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by death@infosec.pub to c/economics@lemmy.world

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[–] ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And the fun part is that these inbound ships are how the US gets empty containers to be able to export goods to foreign clients and a lot of times the US companies only get paid (or start the clock to get paid) once cargo is loaded to a ship.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a database that tracks empty containers - right now there are an unusually huge number of empty containers in the US, probably from the pre-tariff surge. The US is fine for a while.

[–] ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

flatracks and open tops are tough to get right now