Shipping Container Shortage 2024 Usa. Nearly 13 percent of the world’s container shipping fleet was floating off ports from china to north america to europe. When an industry operates in environment in which “it’s always something,” that “something” becomes the foundation of profitability management.
Rates will likely remain high until the reshuffling of assets is complete, and container shipping will skirt the red sea and suez canal until the houthis run out of. Some 65 container ships are stuck outside the ports of los angeles and long beach, amid trade bottlenecks.