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Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts?

Author: BOB2

Date: 11-08-2019 - 08:36

As a numbers guy, I was wondering on the rail impacts on the decline in TEU's at POLB/POLA? How has this affected traffic on the Alameda Corridor, and/or port related transloads at places like the Shops, Industry, Hobart, or ELA?

POLB/POLA TEU's Drop

And, I guess a second question would be, with the relatively "high value" cargo TEU's down by nearly 20%, but total "volume" (I assume this is port "tonnage") slightly up 1.8% ovder 2018, what commodities are moving/shifting that measure of "volume" slightly upward with a decline in total "boxes" of this scale? Lumber dock imports from Canada? More Palm oil imports? Grain exports? Waste paper exports (higher tonnage in containers)? Other?

Since this is a Bay Area/NW oriented West Coast rail forum, is anyone seeing that kind of drop and/or maybe some kind of offsetting increase elsewhere, at other West Coast Ports? Is this possibly a shift in trade patterns and routing, or is this also the case at other ports?

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts?	BOB2	11-08-2019 - 08:36
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts?	George Andrews	11-10-2019 - 05:42
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts?	piker	11-10-2019 - 13:41
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts?	George Andrews	11-10-2019 - 19:33
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts? Thanks....	BOB2	11-11-2019 - 08:31
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts? Thanks....	FUD	11-11-2019 - 22:27
Re: Port TEU's steep decline and POLA/POLB rail impacts? Thanks....	Beringer	11-12-2019 - 15:10

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BOB2 Wrote:
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> As a numbers guy, I was wondering on the rail
> impacts on the decline in TEU's at POLB/POLA?  How
> has this affected traffic on the Alameda Corridor,
> and/or port related transloads at places like the
> Shops, Industry, Hobart, or ELA?
> 
> POLB/POLA TEU's Drop
> 
> And, I guess a second question would be, with the
> relatively "high value" cargo TEU's down by nearly
> 20%, but total "volume" (I assume this is port
> "tonnage") slightly up 1.8% ovder 2018, what
> commodities are moving/shifting that measure of
> "volume" slightly upward with a decline in total
> "boxes" of this scale?  Lumber dock imports from
> Canada? More Palm oil imports? Grain exports?
> Waste paper exports (higher tonnage in
> containers)? Other?
> 
> Since this is a Bay Area/NW oriented West Coast
> rail forum, is anyone seeing that kind of drop
> and/or maybe some kind of offsetting increase
> elsewhere, at other West Coast Ports?  Is this
> possibly a shift in trade patterns and routing, or
> is this also the case at other ports?

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