‘More Resilient’: US Ports, Supply Chains Adapting to Red Sea Shipping Disruptions

Published on January 31, 2024

American retailers are currently placing orders with global manufacturers and reserving space on commercial carriers for the back-to-school sales in August and the Christmas sales in December. That’s at least 14 days ahead of schedule, one of the many “impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions,” Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation (NRF), told a House panel on Jan. 30. Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea’s Bab-el-Mandeb Strait since November by Houthi terrorists have prompted many carriers, including Denmark-based Maersk and France’s CMA CGM, to avoid it, thereby increasing transit times and costs....

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