Last month, the growth in traffic of containers handled by the Port of Long Beach, fueled by the volumes full containers on landing and empty containers. The airport Californian port handled a total of 750 thousand TEUs, with an increase of +14.4% on April 2023. If flat containers On boarding, as in the previous ten months, they decreased having been equal to 98 thousand TEUs (-19.9%), on the other hand, as is the case since last September, the volumes of full containers at unloading and the empty ones recorded increases having totaled 365 thousand TEUs (+16.3%) and 287 thousand TEUs (+30.7%) respectively.

In the first four months of 2024, containerized traffic total amounted to 2.73 million TEUs, with a increase of +15.8% over the same period last year year, of which 1.32 million full TEUs at landing (+19.0%), 377 thousand Full TEUs on board (-20.2%) and 1.05 million empty TEUs (+32.7%).