Retail Import Volume Hits Lowest Level in 7 Years

U.S. ports surveyed handled only 847,832 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units in February, the most recent month for which actual numbers are available. That was down 20.6 percent from January's 1.07 million TEU and 31.3 percent from February 2008's 1.23 million TEU. One TEU is one 20-foot container or its equivalent.