ONT cargo climbs while IE warehouse jobs keep bleeding

Citrus Belt Review: Cargo tonnage at Ontario International rose 5.3% in April and is up 8.1% for the year, topping 283,000 tons. Strip out mail — down 16.7% — and commercial freight is stronger: up 10.2% in April and 12.0% year-to-date, after a 15.3% March. ONT is the West Coast hub for UPS and a major node for FedEx and Amazon Air.

Set that against the ground. Between February and March, the IE's transportation and warehousing sector lost 2,200 jobs, per state EDD data, and the WARN filings keep coming — Geodis will cut 238 at its Rialto facility July 3, after CJ Logistics cut 71 in Fontana. The likely split: air freight moves high-value, time-sensitive goods that hold up when shippers turn cautious, while the warehouse economy runs on bulk ocean-container volume exposed to tariff whiplash and a post-pandemic overbuild. Both are "logistics," but they're riding different cycles — which complicates the easy "IE logistics is collapsing" read.