California port leaders expect imports to rise as Shanghai, home to the world’s busiest seaport, emerges from a two-month COVID-19 lockdown. The question is whether that release of pent-up goods will again swamp West Coast ports that have recently emerged from the pandemic’s massive cargo wave, they and other experts said. The Port of Shanghai was open during the city’s shutdown, but cargo flows still slowed. Area factories that make everything from Tesla (TSLA.O) electric vehicles to Apple (AAPL.O) laptops ran out of components and quarantines idled some truckers. read more As the city returns to normal, trade should follow. “We will have some form of a surge, given the delay of cargo volume from Shanghai and China overall,” Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, said on the sidelines of a Reuters Events logistics conference in Chicago. “To what extent that […]