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The port of Long Beach has begun 2018 marking the new record of containerized trade for the January month
657,830 teu (+12.9% are enlivened)
February 14, 2018
The port of Long Beach has begun 2018 with an optimal result of containerized trade enlivened from the Californian port of call. In the first month of the year, in fact, the port has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 657.830 teu, that it is the new absolute record for the January month and on the previous represents an increment of +12.9% on January a 2017 and increase of +11.2% record of 591.469 teu established in January 2007.
The new peak of traffic is yields of the rise to levels record for the month of full January of disembarks of container and handling of empty containers. Last month the container full disembarked on the docks of Long Beach has been pairs to 324.656 teu, with a progression of +8.6% on January a 2017 and increase of +7.0% on the previous record of 303.344 teu obtained in January 2016.
In January 2018 the container empty enlivened have been pairs to 212.671 teu, in increase of +28.5% on January 2017 and with an increment of +14.4% on the previous record of 185.860 teu empty enlivened in January 2006. Last month it embarks it of container full are piled to 120.503 teu, with an increase of +1.9% on January 2017.
"This is sure the increase that it precedes the new lunar year", has explained the executive director of the Port of Long Beach, Mario Cordero, referring to next the two weeks of festivity in Asia, market that constitutes the main commercial partner of the port American. "Since this year the festivity begins on 16 February - it has specified Cordero - had put in estimate an intense January and February, as the owners of the goods try to send them before the festivity".
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The port of Long Beach has begun 2018 with an optimal result of containerized trade enlivened from the Californian port of call. In the first month of the year, in fact, the port has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 657.830 teu, that it is the new absolute record for the January month and on the previous represents an increment of +12.9% on January a 2017 and increase of +11.2% record of 591.469 teu established in January 2007.
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