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With U.S. retail sales rising and retailers rushing to bring merchandise into the country ahead of proposed new tariffs on products from China, imports at the nation's major retail container ports have set two new records this summer and are expected to set another this month, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

Ports covered by Global Port Tracker handled 1.85 million TEUs in June, the latest month for which after-the-fact numbers are available. That was up 1.6 percent from May and up 7.8 percent year-over-year.

July was estimated at 1.88 million TEUs, up 4.4 percent year-over-year. August is forecast at 1.91 million TEUs, up 4.4 percent; September at 1.82 million TEUs, up 2.1 percent; October at 1.88 million TEUs, up 4.9 percent; November at 1.81 million TEUs, up 2.6 percent, and December at 1.79 million TEUs, up 4 percent.
The June number set a new record for the number of containers imported during a single month, beating the previous record of 1.83 million TEU set in August 2017. The July estimate appeared to take the record higher and August should set yet another record.

The first half of 2018 totaled 10.3 million TEUs, an increase of 5.1 percent over the first half of 2017. The total for 2018 is expected to reach 21.4 million TEUs an increase of 4.4 percent over last year's record 20.5 million TEUs.


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