Los Angeles and Long Beach container traffic down in April

Container traffic at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to fall in April, continuing a year-and-a-half slide. At Los Angeles, total volume in April fell 12.1 percent to 532,124 TEUs against the same month in 2008, while loaded volume fell 11.7 percent to 420,023 TEUs. For the year through April, volume is down 16.1 percent to 2.1 million TEUs.
At the Port of Long Beach, things were worse. Total throughput in April dropped 26.6 percent to 408,705 TEUs, while loaded volume fell 29.7 percent to 312,027 TEUs. For the first four months of 2009, Long Beach's total volume is down 28.8 percent to 1.5 million TEUs.