How Is The Box Rule Impacting Port Slowdowns?
Things continue to run slowly at U.S. ports, especially on the outbound side. A big reason is a business arrangement called the Box Rule. Ray Bowman is an international trade consultant and Program Chair for the District Export Council of Southern California:
"What that box rule is, is to drop off a container, you have to have a chassis, so those are the wheels on the bottom that you load t