Americans on a Buying Spree Give Battered Diesel Market a Lift
- West Coast ports are bustling as e-commerce is surging
- Longer-haul truck trips from L.A. nearly doubled from 2019
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The pandemic-driven surge in online shopping continues to sustain diesel as a bright spot in an otherwise devastated U.S. fuel market.
The latest signs are coming from ship containers arriving on the West Coast at unprecedented rates, with goods then being trucked from Los Angeles to as far as Atlanta a lot more frequently than a year ago.