{"id":9204,"date":"2024-04-08T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/box-logjam-at-port-of-vancouver-as-import-surge-meets-rail-shortages\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:25:37","slug":"box-logjam-at-port-of-vancouver-as-import-surge-meets-rail-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/box-logjam-at-port-of-vancouver-as-import-surge-meets-rail-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Logjam at Port of Vancouver as Import Surge Meets Rail Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surge of imports meeting strained rail capacity has pushed up container dwell times at North American west coast ports, especially in Vancouver.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And importers face further disruption with Canadian rail workers set to vote on industrial action in their contract negotiations with the railways.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority\u2019s dashboard for rail flows showed container dwell times of more than seven days at the Centerm container facility, while Vanterm and Deltaport registered dwells of five-to-seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Average dwell times climbed from 4.3 days in December to 5.2 in January, 6.7 in February and 7.3 in March.<\/p>\n<p>The congestion was caused by a double-digit surge in imports. For March, the port posted a 10% rise in boxes over February, 51.7% higher than 12 months earlier. Terminal utilization reached 91% at Deltaport and 96% at Centerm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_3e4dd0a7-0e91-4871-b4c9-0233aeb9e0a2&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv2dxw2uv3fcxn62vbk5ngq8bb3c5q62t39c5q2uw3fe9u76bb1ecppjvbgdxt78bbkent6et9ddnjpax3k5nt62ubc5ntpgvvjehgpetbk5w&amp;n=6\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge of imports meeting strained rail capacity has pushed up container dwell times at North American west coast ports, especially in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[203],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-port-of-vancouver-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}