Container handling through the Port of New York jumped by 10% on a year earlier, the seventh straight month of growth. By contrast to the other U.S. east coast ports imports expanded more quickly than exports. Import growth of 7% beat the 6% average nationally, suggesting that despite the port’s scale the Bayonne Bridge raising is having an effect. That can also be seen in the 8% rise in shipments from outside China and the EU, indicating more arrivals of larger, circular route vessels. What hasn’t had an effect is the diversion of Asian traffic via the Panama Canal – shipments ...