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The port of Los Angeles has closed the first three months of the 2016 with a traffic record for the period pairs to beyond two million container
It disembarks and it embarks it of full containers have grown respective of +8.8% and of +7.6% and handling of teu empty it is gone up of +19.6%
April 13, 2016
In the first trimester of this year the port of Los Angeles has established the own new record of traffic of the container enlivened in the first three months of the totaled year having beyond 2,0 million teu, with a progression of enlivened 11.3% regarding 1,8 million teu in the first trimester of 2015. The increase has been yields of the increments of +33.0% and +42.0% recorded respective to January and February 2016 regarding the correspondents months of 2015 in which the enlivened volumes they were dropped of the -22,8% and the -10,2% because of the reduction of the activity on the docks determined from abstentions from the job waiting for I renew of the contract of the harbour work that is signed to the end of February 2015. To March 2016, instead, the traffic has shown a bending of the -22,6% that is also effect of the rise of +17.3% recorded to March 2015 to the flood resumption of the activity on the docks of the Californian port of call.
In the first three months of this full year it disembarks to it and it embarks to it of container have grown respective of +8.8% and of +7.6% attesting to 1,0 million and 432 thousand teu and empty handling of container it is gone up of +19.6% to 572 thousand teu.
In the single freedom of expression of this full year it disembarks to it of container are diminished of the -33,3% to 287 thousand teu, while it embarks to it of full containers are increased of +9.5% to 159 thousand teu. Container handling empty has been pairs to 166 thousand teu (- 22.8%).
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