North American ports: Slowdown after growth tests capacity to cope

By 2017-07-05T17:20:21

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While seven years of consecutive sales growth in the North American automotive industry have put vehicle handling ports to the test in terms of throughput, many of them are now being tested further by the slowdown in sales in the US, with inventory build-ups in some ports, and slower throughput.

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