Online shopping skyrocketed at the beginning of the pandemic. And two years later, it shows few signs of slowing down.
But the increased demand has contributed to a bogged-down supply chain and left online retailers and logistics companies scrambling to keep up.
The result of this can be seen just about any day and night, on Atlanta’s west side at Norfolk Southern’s Inman Yard terminal, with semi-trucks constantly coming and going and multi-colored rows of shipping containers as far as the eye can see.
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