Image by Flickr user montwerxImage by 20090416-port.jpg Shipping: It's smaller than it was just a short while ago.

The number of shipping containers that went throughout the Port of Charleston fell by some 31% in February 2009, when compared to February 2008.

Read more stories on this subject in our port topic page.The Charleston Regional Business Journal has the reporting on the issue, and how Charleston's suffering is, of course, part of larger national decline in shipping volume.

Go read it.