Last month, the strong growth of the container traffic at the Port of Long Beach in place over the last few years six months and followed 11 months of significant decline in volumes Handled. In February 2023, the Californian port of call handled a total of 675 thousand TEUs, with an increase of +24.1% compared to February last year, an increase that was determined by the growth of full containers at unloading results equal to 330 thousand TEUs (+29.4%) and empty containers totalled 257 thousand TEUs (+44.8%), while full containers At embarkation, they decreased by -21.1% to 87 thousand TEUs.

In the first two months of this year, containerized traffic in the Port of Long Beach amounted to 1.35 million TEUs, with an increase of +20.7% over the first two months of 2023, of which 655 thousand full TEUs at landing (+26.4%), 174 thousand full TEUs at boarding (-19.6%) and 519 thousand empty TEUs (+35.8%).