Surging shipments into the United States are fueling record high freight costs and logjams at seaports, but transportation executives say the rally will lose steam with a second wave of COVID-19 restrictions on the cards. Slideshow ( 2 images ) Container shipping companies, which move goods for customers including Amazon.com AMZN.O and Walmart WMT.N , got stung late last year and early this year when COVID-19 halted trade around the world, and they question whether the U.S. import boom can be sustained. “Let’s not get carried away,” Rolf Habben Jansen, chief executive of Germany’s Hapag Lloyd HLAG.DE , told reporters. “This is just a spike that no one has foreseen in an unusual period. There will be a correction to that.” U.S. consumer confidence ticked up in September, when retail sales accelerated. Still, consumers are eating through savings, layoffs are mounting and the country just […]