The +2.8% growth recorded last August, which interrupted a negative trend in the previous 12 months, strengthened in September when the Port of Los Angeles, having Container traffic of 748 thousand handled during the period TEU, recorded an increase of +5.4% in volumes handled on September 2022 determined, as in previous months, mainly from exports of full containers. In the whole In the third quarter of 2023, the Californian port of call handled a total of 2.26 million TEUs, with a decrease of -7.7% compared to the same period last year, of which 1.19% million full TEUs at landing (-3.4%), 356 thousand full TEUs at boarding (+25.4%) and 715 thousand empty TEUs (-23.5%).

In the first nine months of this year, traffic amounted to globally to 6.40 million TEUs, down -18.6% over the same period in 2022, of which 3.32 million TEUs were full at the same time. disembarkation (-16.6%), 937 thousand full TEUs at embarkation (+2.9%) and 2.14 million empty TEUs (-28.0%).