An article on the National Retail Federation website suggests that the number of TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) of container traffic ended a 4 month slump in December 2007. It also suggests increased traffic over the next 3 months compared to 2007 is in the cards. This measure of TUEs looks like the modern day equivalent of rail car loadings, which was and probably still is used as a harbinger of economic activity. The weekly rail traffic report shows a decrease of 2.3 percent in January 2008 compared to 2007. Bad weather in the east was part of the reason for the decline but so was a decline in lumber and coke traffic. Still it looks like the good old American consumer will keep the world out of recession.
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