Raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming.

Today’s banner lead in the Journal of Commerce’s e-mail newsletter.

It’s not an exaggeration to tell people that the collective exhale that everyone felt at the conclusion of the problems on the West Coast have now put the year long posturing and simmering of the issues on the East Coast front and center again.  Add to this a Hurricane, tectonic pricing shifts, an election and an economy that is just getting on its feet, this has been a bear of a year to be a global company.