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The port of Long Beach has recorded a new record of traffic of the container for the september month
+2.2% are enlivened 707 thousand teu ()
October 17, 2019
Last month the port of Long Beach has enlivened a total of container pairs to 707 thousand teu, figure that for the Californian port of call the new historical record constitutes of containerized trade for the september month and represents an increment of +2.2% on the september the 2018 (precedence record was marked to september 2017 with 702 thousand teu). The new maximum peak of traffic for september has been reaches thanks to the record for this month of the handling of empty containers that has been pairs to 229 thousand teu (+2.9% on september 2018). Last month the container full to the disembarkation has recorded a decrease of the -0,7% attesting itself to 355 thousand teu, while the container full to the boarding is increased of +1.4% going up to 123 thousand teu.
In the first nine months of the 2019 total containerized trade it is piled to 5,7 million teu, with a bending of the -5,7% on the same period last year, of which 2,8 million teu full to disembarkation (- 7.7%), 1,1 million teu full to the boarding (- 7.0%) and 1,8 million teu empty (- 1.5%).
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