March 2021 Sea Container Imports Again Significantly Improved Pointing To A Strong Economic Recovery The import container counts for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach rate of growth again jumped month-over-month partially due to the fact that the import data one year ago was impacted by the pandemic shutdown but still import container counts set a record for Marchs. Exports are having the worst year since 2009. Analyst Opinion of Container Movements On top of a trade war and the world pandemic, import container counts continue to surge. There is chaos in container movements with containers in the wrong place and shortages of rail cars to move containers - however, the container situation again improved this month - but there continues a shortage of containers and unloading berths. This container shortage was exasperated by the Suez blockage.