Container handling through the port of Houston outpaced much of the rest of the U.S. with a 12.3% year over year improvement in June. That continued a 14.7% expansion seen in the prior three months and included a 10.3% increase in imports in June. The latter was driven in large part by shipments from Mexico which jumped 18.6% in June compared to a year earlier. That may be linked to diversions of traffic away from truck shipping after the Trump administration’s repeated threats to close the border. Diversion of manufacturing from China as a result of tariffs as a response to tariffs may ...