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The Port of Long Beach celebrates a new monthly container traffic record
New all-time high also in the July-September quarter
Long Beach
October 16, 2026
Last month, the Port of Long Beach marked its
new historical record of monthly container traffic having
handled a total of 997 thousand TEUs, a volume that represents a
increase of +25.0% on September 2025 and is higher than
Almost 10 thousand TEUs compared to the previous record set in October
2024. The new peak was reached thanks to the
record volumes of full container landings and empty containers that
amounted to 509 thousand TEUs (+31.3%) and 396 thousand respectively
TEU (+22.1%). Full containers at embarkation also grew with
92 thousand TEUs (+7.8%).
Containerized traffic handled by the port
in the third quarter of 2026 reached a
record share, which was equal to 2.85 million TEUs, in
increase of +7.6% over the July-September period last year. I
only volumes of full containers at unloading and containers have
new absolute records of 1.43 million (+10.5%) and 1.12 million
million TEUs (+3.9%). Full containers at loading were
296 thousand TEUs (+8.8%).
In the first nine months of 2026, total traffic was
7.67 million TEUs, up +3.9% on the same
period of 2025.
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