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A peek look to the peak freight season: congestion, chaos, fewer containers

Anyone who thinks he or she has an accurate feel for what the peak shipping season will look like between now until around Halloween clearly has not been paying attention to the wacky ups-and-downs of the past two years. First came the economic shutdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Then came an overheated economic rebound that taxed the limits of production of items ranging from toilet paper to computer semiconductor chips. Now the nation faces at least a one-in-three chance of an economic recession, according to the best guessers of such things.

source https://www.supplychain247.com/article/a_peek_look_to_the_peak_freight_season_congestion_chaos_fewer_containers

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