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To October the container in the port of Los Angeles has recorded a drastic decrease of -19,1%
The harbour authority attributes the consisting bending to the first effects of the war of the USA-China custom offices
November 8, 2019
Last month the traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Los Angeles has marked a heavy regression of the -19,1%, collapse that second the harbour authority of the Californian port of call is determined by the effect of the war of the custom offices between the United States and China. "With a 25% of ports of call of ships in less, 12 consecutive months of the reduction of the exports and now a bending of the exports - the general manager of the Port of Los Angeles has explained, Gene Seroka - we are beginning to feel the effects all-out of the commercial war USA-China on the exporter and the producers Americans. We preview that in the next few months the traffic volumes will be weak and, with the festivity that are incumbent, less goods means less places of work for the workers Americans. We need - it has emphasized Seroka - of a negotiated solution and the removal of the custom offices".
Last month the port has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 770 thousand teu regarding 952 thousand teu in October 2018. The full containers in import have been 393 thousand teu (- 19.2%) and those full loads in export 140 thousand teu (- 19.3%). Container handling empty has been pairs to 237 thousand teu (- 19.1%).
In the first ten months of the 2019 port of call it has enlivened altogether almost 7,9 million teu, with a progression of +1.8% on the correspondent period last year. The container full to the disembarkation and the boarding is diminished respective of the -0,2% and -7,2% to 4,0 million and the 1,5 million one teu. The empty containers have been 2,4 million (+12.4%).
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Last month the traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Los Angeles has marked a heavy regression of the -19,1%, collapse that second the harbour authority of the Californian port of call is determined by the effect of the war of the custom offices between the United States and China. "With a 25% of ports of call of ships in less, 12 consecutive months of the reduction of the exports and now a bending of the exports - the general manager of the Port of Los Angeles has explained, Gene Seroka - we are beginning to feel the effects all-out of the commercial war USA-China on the exporter and the producers Americans. We preview that in the next few months the traffic volumes will be weak and, with the festivity that are incumbent, less goods means less places of work for the workers Americans. We need - it has emphasized Seroka - of a negotiated solution and the removal of the custom offices".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
