Like California's other major port of Los Angeles, in the last quarter of 2023, the Long Beach airport also Container traffic rebounded after five years quarterly periods of decline. In the period October-December of last year on the docks of Long Beach were bustling a total of 2.20 million TEUs, with an increase of +22.6% over the same period of 2022, of which 1.05 million TEUs full at disembarkation (-16.1%), 303 thousand full TEUs at embarkation (+17.2%) and 841 thousand empty TEUs (+32.4%). Particularly accentuated is The increase in traffic was recorded in the month of December alone of 2023 when 710 thousand TEUs were handled, with a growth by +30.5% on December 2022.

In the whole of 2023, containerized traffic was equal to to 8.02 million TEUs, down -12.2% on the year previous, of which 3.80 million full TEUs at landing (-12.7%), 1.28 million full TEUs on boarding (-11.9%) and 2.93 million TEUs empty spaces (-12.7%).