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

With lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers, manufacturers, and the shipping and transport ecosystem are adjusting

Shipping containers are unloaded from a ship at the Port of Long Beach, in Los Angeles, Calif., on April 7, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

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.