Trump vow on new trade war sends shockwaves through supply chain, importers scramble to move up orders

By Lori Ann LaRocco – CNBC

• Logistics companies say that clients from retail to manufacturing are moving quickly to get imports into the U.S. ahead of schedule.
• President-elect Trump has vowed to move fast on aggressive new tariffs on imports and said in his speech early Wednesday morning, “promises made, promises kept.”
• The shipping anxiety could fuel freight rates, and shares of trucking and railroad stocks rallied on Wednesday, though international ocean carriers slumped, led by Maersk on fears about lower overall global volumes of trade in a new trade war.