Container handling at the port of Norfolk as well as neighboring ports in Virginia, fell 0.3% on a year earlier in November. That was led by an 11.3% drop in exports – which bodes ill for the local economy – and continues a run of lackluster growth at the port. A 1.4% rise in inbound traffic was the result of declining shipments from the EU whereas imports from China soared 13.4% higher. The latter was the result of importers including Walmart, Target and Amazon preempting the risk of tariff increases on Chinese exports. The tariff increases had been scheduled for January ...