JB Hunt expects the delays that Shanghai is experiencing today to spread to the US West Coast by July. “We do forecast that to get a lot worse as we come into the summer months, particularly with what’s happening in the supply chain from an ocean perspective or in China coming inbound,” Simpson said. “We have had a lot of customers talk to us about that.”

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