The good news for US-bound carriers: capacity-constrained ports and intermodal links won't suffer congestion woes anytime soon that are as bad as the 2004 snarl. The bad news is that this is because US container imports have clearly faltered during the 2007 peak season.rnAnalysts had been raising concerns over the link between housing and the box trades. Given the significant market share of US imports tied to this sector - furniture, appliances, building supplies and much else - box volumes are particularly vulnerable to the painful popping of the housing bubble.
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