After 13 months of decline, container traffic in September 2023 in the port of Long Beach has returned to growth having been equal to over 829 thousand TEUs, a volume that represents an increase of +11.8% on September 2022 and is the most consistent ever recorded in this month of the year, as well as being the sixth highest volume ever handled in absolute terms. The increase is generated by the interruption of the negative trend of the full containers on landing and empty containers that last month amounted to 409 thousand TEUs (+19.3%) and 319 thousand respectively TEU (+11.5%). The traffic of full containers at loading is decreased by -10.4% as it amounted to 101 thousand TEUs.

In the third quarter of this year, the Californian port of call handled a total of 2.09 million TEUs, with a decrease of -10.5% on the corresponding period of 2022. The full containers at unloading and embarking were equal respectively at 1.00 million TEUs (-8.9%) and 285 thousand TEUs (-17,2%). Empty containers totalled 800 thousand TEUs (-9.9%).

In the first nine months of 2023, the global figure was 5.82 million TEUs, a reduction of -20.7% over the period January-September last year.