At ports, a shortage of cargo containers seems about as unlikely as cardboard boxes suddenly becoming obsolete. The weak dollar has made U.S. goods cheaper overseas and has created a new wrinkle for the shipping industry: Containers are increasingly hard to come by. “The import volume has slowed down, so fewer boxes are coming in, and exporters are seeing more demand,” said Kevin Mack, a vice president at Newark, N.J.-based Columbia Containers. “I’ve been in the business for 25 years, and this is the first time I can remember this happening.”While most containers come into ports on the East Coast, the Midwest can’t find enough of them to handle the rising exports of grains, soybeans and corn bound for overseas markets.“It’s all logistics,” said Sherif Gendi, who arranges U.S. grain exports for the trading company Marubeni America in New York City. “The containers,” he said, “aren’t getting to where they’re needed.”That’s because moving empty containers around is an expense no one wants to absorb.
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