Last month, the Port of Long Beach handled a volume of of container traffic, which is a new record for the August is the fifth best result ever. The total of containers, in fact, amounted to 920 thousand TEUs, with a Growth of +2.0% over August 2025. Driving growth are containers were once again full upon disembarkation, which stood at 456 thousand TEUs (+3.6%). Containers also increased full at boarding which totaled 100 thousand TEUs (+4.0%). I Empty containers decreased by -0.4% to 364 thousand TEUs.

In the first eight months of 2026, the Californian port of call handled a total of 6.68 million TEUs, with an increase of +1.3% on the same period of last year, of which 3.27 million full TEUs at landing (+2.3%), 821 million full TEUs at boarding (+10.3%) and 2.59 million empty TEUs (-2.5%).