Last year, container traffic at the Port of Long Beach reached a record 9.88 million TEUs, with a increase of +2.4% on 2024 when the previous one was marked historical peak. As in other U.S. ports, growth recent increase in containerized volumes has been driven by full containers at the landing and by the empty containers, two streams of cargoes that in Long Beach have recorded new records equal to respectively to 4.78 million TEUs (+1.1%) and 3.96 million TEUs (+6,7%). The traffic of full containers at loading is instead decreased by -5.5% to 1.14 million TEUs.

The new annual record of the Port of Long Beach has produced essentially in the first quarter of 2025 when it was year-on-year growth of +19.8%. In the last quarter of 2025, on the other hand, containerized traffic is fell by -8.8% over the same period of the previous year, being amounted to 2.49 million TEUs, of which 1.19 million full TEUs on disembarkation (-10.4%), 312 thousand full TEUs on boarding (-6.1%) and 984 thousand empty TEUs (-7.7%).

In December 2025 alone, total traffic was amounted to 834 thousand TEUs, with a decrease of -3.1% on December 2024. Full containers at disembarkation amounted to 392 thousand TEUs (-5,0%). Full containers at embarkation, after nine months of reduction, marked an increase of +1.6% rising to 102 thousand TEUs. I empty containers amounted to 339 thousand TEUs (-2.3%).