Photo: A customer holds a wood plank at a Home Depot store ahead of Hurricane Ian in Tampa, Florida, on September 27, 2022. A customer holds a wood plank at a Home Depot store ahead of Hurricane Ian in Tampa, Florida, on September 27, 2022.

When Mike Newman started to hear warnings earlier this year about delays at ports on the U.S. West Coast because of labor negotiations, the threat of more supply-chain chaos “became the last straw for us.”

So the CEO of New York-based Returnity Innovations moved about two-thirds of his production of reusable shipping bags and boxes from China to Mexico, to reduce the amount of merchandise flowing through the clogged docks in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.

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