Container throughput at the port of Long Beach (USA) in January-February 2012 dropped 9.46% year-over-year to 845,000 TEUs, the Port Authority statistics said.
Shipments of containers in February fell 15.22% from the 2011 period’s figures to 388,590 TEUs.
Port of Long Beach is one of the largest seaports of the United States. Annual volume of trade flows passing via the port make Long Beach the second-busiest seaport in the U.S. In 2011, container traffic at the port totaled 4.53 m TEUs. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach form together the U.S. port complex, one of the world’s biggest hub.