Experts predict bottlenecks will slow shipments to the West Coast and in the process, shrink the US trade deficit with the Asian nation.

By David R. Francis | Columnist of The Christian Science Monitor

The United States faces a West Coast port crisis.

Imports from China and other Asian nations are rising so explosively that within a year or two, ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Tacoma, Seattle, and San Francisco will be badly clogged with traffic, predicts George Stalk Jr., senior partner in Toronto of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Ships will be lined up in harbors waiting for space at a dock, he says. Railroads will be jammed; highways busier than ever ......
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