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To July the traffic of the container in the port of Long Beach has marked rest
Recorded a bending of -4,4%
August 10, 2018
After 16 consecutive months of increase, to July the 2018 traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Long Beach has recorded a decrease of the -4,4% being is pairs to 688 thousand teu regarding 720 thousand teu to July 2017. Decreasing they have turned out is the container full to the disembarkation that those to the boarding, with first that they have totaled 348 thousand teu (- 8.2%) and second 120 thousand teu (- 5.0%). Handling of empty containers instead has grown of +2.6% to 221 thousand teu.
The Harbour Authority of the port of call American has specified that the total bending of the -4,4% of the traffic is determined by the decision of the alliances between the navigation companies to transfer ships and to vary the port of call ports. Moreover the authority has expressed the fear that the increasing cost of the ports of call can provoke in the remaining part of a 2018 decrease of the traffic, than instead has been up to now to the more intense level in the 107 history years of the port.
In the first seven months of the 2018 Californian port it has enlivened a total of beyond 4,6 million teu, with an increment of +11.3% on the same period last year. Full to the disembarkation and the boarding are increased respective of +9.5% and of 933 thousand and the empty container +11.3% to 2,3 million teu teu and the container they have marked a rise of +14.4% attesting itself almost 1,4 million teu.
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After 16 consecutive months of increase, to July the 2018 traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Long Beach has recorded a decrease of the -4,4% being is pairs to 688 thousand teu regarding 720 thousand teu to July 2017. Decreasing they have turned out is the container full to the disembarkation that those to the boarding, with first that they have totaled 348 thousand teu (- 8.2%) and second 120 thousand teu (- 5.0%). Handling of empty containers instead has grown of +2.6% to 221 thousand teu.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
