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Port Tracker report expects annual retail import cargo declines until the spring


 

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Port Tracker report expects annual retail import cargo declines until the spring

Port Tracker report expects annual retail import cargo declines until the spring

For November, the most recent month for which data is available, U.S. imports, for the ports surveyed in the report, came in at 2.02 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEU), which marked a 2.3% sequential decline and a 6.5% annual decline.
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National diesel average heads down for eighth consecutive week, reports EIA

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