Containers pile up as imports from China soar.

If this goes on unchecked, the US will one day be covered by Chinese containers.
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Containers pile up as imports from China soar.
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REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
June 15, 2006
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NORFOLK -- The hundreds of empty containers stacked beside the rails near the Norfolk Southern Corp. Portlock rail yard in Chesapeake look ready to board ship here and head back to China, but they are going nowhere.
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China is shipping so many goods to the United States that the Chinese often find it cheaper to build new containers with low-cost labor and leave their empty ones in the United States than send them home empty.
"These containers are here to stay," Portlock trainmaster Brian Stanley said, pointing at the piles.
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The empty containers reflect the changing shape of the U.S. economy as manufacturing goes overseas. Shippers, railroads and real estate companies are scrambling to deal with the fundamental question of how to deal with an increasing flow of shipping containers.
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