Supply Chain Research

The container-lines operating U.S.-inbound routes have started feeling the impact of the coronavirus outbreak with China-to-U.S. shipping down by 19.7% year over year in February. That dragged total containerized freight imports down by 4.3%. MSC and Maersk were among the best performers among the top 10 liners with growth of 1.6% and a contraction of 0.8% respectively. Evergreen and COSCO Shipping did the worst with declines of 12.4% and 21.1%. MSC also saw a rapid turnaround with the 1.6% growth following an 8.8% slide in the prior three months resulting from improved traffic growth fr...