Take all those claims of reduced lines of tankers carrying supply chain shipments along the West Coast with a grain of salt water.

Many of those ships are headed to the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new report from Marcus & Millichap.

In 2002, approximately 80 percent of transpacific cargo entered the U.S. through West Coast nodes; that figure has fallen to 56 percent just over 20 years later.

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