If container traffic in the Port of Los Angeles continues to driven growth - according to the findings of the local Port Authority - by the increase in imports in view of the higher amounts of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump ( of 15 July 2025), the scenario in the other major container port of the East Coast of the United States, Long Beach, seems to be very since containerized traffic, including that in imports, decreasing. A decline that in the second quarter of 2014 2025 was -3.4% over the same period in 2024 and that in June alone it fell to -16.4%.

Last month, in fact, the port of Long Beach moved Containerized traffic of 704 thousand TEUs compared to 842 thousand TEU in June 2024. There was a sharp decrease in both the full containers at disembarkation and embarkation, respectively at 349 thousand TEUs (-16.9%) and 88 thousand TEUs (-10.9%), both the empty containers totaled 268 thousand TEUs (-17.4%).

In the second quarter of 2025, the port of Long Beach, out of a total freight traffic of 45.8 million tons down by -6.8% over the same period in 2024, handled container traffic of 2.21 million TEUs (-3.4%), of which 1.07 million full TEUs at landing (-5.5%), 264 thousand full TEUs on boarding (-11.4%) and 880 thousand empty TEUs (+2.1%).

In the first half of this year, traffic in Long Beach global cargo was 96.5 million tons, with a growth of +5.5% over the first half of 2024, while the containerized traffic alone amounted to 4.75 million TEUs (+10.6%), of which 2.29 million full TEUs at landing (+9.6%), 556 thousand full TEUs on boarding (-3.5%) and 1.90 million empty TEUs (+16,8%).