The U.S. seaborne import boom continued in January with total inbound shipments up 5.1% year over year while containerized freight rose 5.8%. There was a slowdown in shipment growth from China to just 0.7% from 12.0% in the fourth quarter. That was largely down to the tariff ceasefire reached between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping in early December reducing the need to build inventories. Shipments from other regions provided an offset. A 6.8% increase in imports from the EU didn’t include a Brexit-related burst in U.K. exports, which only rose 1.1%. Unsurprisingly Chi...