It is true, as highlighted by the CEO of the Port of Long Beach, Mario Cordero, that the decrease of -28,5% of the traffic of containers enlivened from the port of call of Long Beach in June 2023 is in relation to one month, that of June 2022, in which the most high volume of traffic never handled in this period of the year. However, and this Cordero did not detect, between the June 2022 volume and June 2023 volume there are others nine months of June, including that of the distant 2006, in which the Traffic data was higher than last year month. The total of 597 thousand teu of June 2023 is in fact lower than 189 thousand teu compared to the data of June 2022.

A significant decline, that of last month, which is was determined by the continuation of the accentuated trends of decrease in the volumes of full containers on landing, which in June 2023 have been pairs to 274 thousand teu (- 34.0%), and the volumes of empty container, which last month are piled to 228 thousand teu (-25.0%), but also from the decrease of -18.0% of containers full at boarding, attested to 94 thousand teu, traffic flow, the latter, which in the previous months had followed a trend oscillating.

In the first semester of 2023 the Californian port has enlivened Globally 3,73 million TEU, with a contraction of -25,5% on the first half of last year, of which 1.75 million teu full at disembarkation (- 29.0%), 695 thousand teu full at boarding (-2.2%) and 1.29 million empty teu (-29.7%).

In the second quarter of this year alone, traffic is State of 2,01 million TEU, with a decrease of -21,0% on the period April-June of 2022, of which 949 thousand teu full on landing (- 24.3%), 345 thousand teu full boarding (- 2.9%) and 717 thousand teu empty (-23,6%).

The outlook for the coming months does not seem comforting for the port, since the Port of Long Beach itself has confirmed that Economists have estimated that in the first half of 2023 Consumer spending was higher than expectations and in the second half of the year it could flatten.