The consultant said, "I have been working in the industry for thirty years and I have never seen anything like this. It's weird."

The result is that importers of low value products being shipped by containers such as tee shirts would be at an economic disadvantage transporting containers by truck as opposed to by rail between U.S. West Coast ports and Midwest destinations, because of the higher cost.

he consultant explained that there is a huge shortage of rail capacity: "There are no rail cars and there are no chassis."