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I'd never heard that, but I have heard several times that the U.S. trans-ships more freight from the West Coast to the East Coast, by rail, than goes through the Panama Canal.
The megafreighter/rail combo is so efficient that it's preferable to ship stuff to Europe from Asia by sending it to the West Coast, hauling it by rail to the East Coast, and then taking it to Europe on another ship, than to put it on a smaller ship and send it through the Panama or Suez Canals. And it's faster than sending it around Cape Horn.
I thought that was pretty surprising the first time I read it. Some huge percentage of Asian-manufactured consumer goods in Europe pass through the U.S. rail-freight system on their way to store shelves.
(Source on that is "Intermodal Freight Transport" by David Lowe, IIRC. Kind of a cool book if you're a train geek. Amazon)