According to the Port Authority of Los Angeles the drastic decrease of the -26,8% of the traffic of the container enlivened last month from the Californian airport is a consequence of the slowdown of global trade due to retailers and manufacturers who still have substantial inventories. The Director Port of Los Angels operative, Gene Seroka, who previously had projected a recovery in volumes in the second half of 2023, specified that "American consumers continue to spend and, probably, this year they will find more discounted items in the fall fashion collection and for end-of-year Christmas holidays'. He did not clarify whether these items will be those already in stock or those that the US port authorities hope that in the Next weeks will be imported through the docks of the their ports.

What is certain is that if in Los Angeles it was Expected a weakening of activity in July, the decrease recorded last month, when they were enlivened 684 thousand container teu compared to 935 thousand in July 2022, is was probably more pronounced than expected. If it is true that in July 2022 the record of traffic for this month of the year, equally true is that the volume handled in July 2023 is lower than those totaled in the months of July of the years from 2010 to 2022. In addition if the data of July 2023 is higher than the 576 thousand teu Eventful in July 2009 when the However, the effects of the financial crisis on economies lower even than the volumes of traffic handled in the distant months of July 2008, 2007 and 2006.

Last month the only growing voice was that of the full containers at boarding that, with 110 thousand teu, have showed an increase of +6.2% on July 2022. In decline, however, both the container full to the disembarkation with 364 thousand teu (- 25.0%) both the empty container with 210 thousand teu (- 39.5%):

In the first seven months of 2023 the Californian port of call has enlivened altogether 4,82 million teu, with a decrease of the -24.1% on the corresponding period last year, of which 2.49 millions of teu full on landing (- 22.9%), 692 thousand teu full boarding (-5.3%) and 1.64 million empty teu (-31.4%).