The Descartes Systems Group, the global leading company in unifying intensive business in the field of logistics services at COMMERCE, has released the August Global Logistics Service and the supply chain. In July 2025, American container import volumes increased to 2621,910 units of twenty feet (TEU), an increase of 18.2 % from June. Imports from China increased to 923,075 temperatures in July-an increase of 44.4 % per month and the highest level in 2025 since January. For the second month in a row, Top West Coast maintained the lead in the market share on the ports of the East and the Gulf coast. In general, the delay in the transit time in the port increased only modestly at the best American ports in July, indicating that the infrastructure was well in spite of its high sizes. The August Logistical Methods update indicated that Descartes indicates that although global supply chains continue to deal with continuous geopolitical disorders, the developments of commercial policy also create continuous trade uncertainty.
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Container imports in the United States rise in July, when the level of the highest level is.
The slowest activity in May and June, July sizes rose to 2,621,910 feet and twenty feet units (TEUS), increasing 18.2 % from June and 2.6 % of July 2024 (see Figure 1). July’s sizes were only 555 of TEU shy of the record ever in May 2022. Although they were consistent with the high peak season in the month in the shipping of the ocean that occurred over the past nine years, the volumes of July 2025 also reflect the front loading by the customs tariff suspected by the United States beneficiaries before the documentary commercial policy transformers. Compared to the prehittle in July 2019, sizes increased by 19.3 %. The total TEU rises to July 3.6 % compared to the same period in 2024.
Figure 1. The volume of import of American containers compared to an annual basis
US container imports in July jumped from the 10 best COO countries by 25.4 % month, led by large increases from China and Hong Kong (see Figure 2). After the previous months of the weakness moved by the customs tariff, China recorded an impressive profit of 283,775 degrees, an increase of 44.4 % from June and outside the record of 1,022,913 temperatures in July 2024 by 9.8 %. China’s share of the total US imports increased to 35.2 % – the highest level since early 2025 but still fails the record by 41.5 % seen in February 2022. Hong Kong recorded a significant increase in July, when 25185 degrees (47.8 %) increased. Wide spreading increases indicate a return in Asia-first shipments among US importers.
Figure 2. June 2025 to July 2025 compared to American import volume
“After two months of unequal performance, the increase in the number of containers in container imports on the impact of the US tariff policies, not only seasonal demand sessions, confirm the container sizes,” said Jackson Wood, director of the industry strategy in Descartes. “The indisputable uncertainty is still high, as American importers evaluate their supply chains in the face of the implementation of mutual duties on August 1 over more than 60 countries, and the beginning of August 7 of the definitions of India and the comprehensive copper tariff, and the end of October 15 of the US-China tariffs.”
August 2025 has coincided with four years of the monthly global shipping report since Descartes began its analysis in August 2021. To read the past monthly reports, learn more about the main economic and logistical factors that lead the shipping of global freight, and review strategies to help face challenges in the center of near global, short and long -term global freight resources.
