Container handling through California’s big three ports fell 1% on a year earlier in August, led by a 2% decline in volumes imported to LA, Long Beach and Oakland. The initiation of duties on $50 billion of Chinese exports by the Trump administration was the main driver, resulting in a 7% drop in shipments vs. a 4% rise in the prior three months. Import growth of just 1% from all other countries indicates growth elsewhere is hardly healthy though. Among the container-lines the outliers that saw improving China-California volumes were Hapag-Lloyd (25% higher than a year earlier), Everg...