Port of Long Beach box volume down nearly 6 percent
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach (USA) in January-April 2012 decreased by 5.76% compared with the same period in 2011 to 1.77 million TEUs, the Port Authority statistics said.
In April, the port handled 461,900 TEUs, a 13.03% decline year-on-year.
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 throughput at the port reached 4.53 million TEUs. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach form together the U.S. port complex, one of the world’s biggest hub.