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architectural lighting manufacturers Updates from freight forwarders about the global supply chain continue to paint a bleak picture. We have known for a while now that the situation was unlikely to improve any time this year, but recent developments bring forth an even greater cause for concern than in the past. Ocean carriers have begun limiting the amount of containers that can move inland by rail by about 50-60% of current levels. This move will have a huge effect on other aspects of logistics like container availability, pricing, and transit times, to name a few. Ocean carriers’ reasoning behind this move is that they want their containers back ASAP in order to send them back to Asia to be reloaded. How do rail shipments factor in? When a container is shipped inland by rail, the process of it being moved across the country and then back to LAX in order to be sent back to Asia can take at least 30 days, sometimes over 100 days. This transit time has been deemed too long by carriers...