West Coast port congestion because of a long-running labor dispute may be in the rearview mirror, but North American industrial supply chains aren’t out of the woods yet.
Alliances among global ship operators, chassis shortages, a lack of sufficient infrastructure and capacity to handle big ships, as well as human resources are all concerns that may bring new logjams in the intermodal shipping market, Joni Casey, president and CEO of the Intermodal Association of North America, said during an analyst presentation Friday.
“Resolution of the labor issue on the West Coast was certainly a step in the right direction in terms of harmonizing intermodal freight flows. But there’s other pieces of the equation that can have impacts on the business moving forward,” Ms. Casey said.
