In the first three months of 2024, container traffic at the port of Long Beach increased by +16.4% compared to the same last year's period having amounted to 2.0 million TEUs. The growth was driven by the increase in containers full at the time of unloading and empty containers that were equal to the 958 thousand TEUs (+20.1%) and 766 thousand TEUs (+33.5%) respectively. The full containers at loading decreased by -20.3% to 279 thousand TEUs.

After the sharp increases of +17.5% and +24.1% in containerized cargoes handled in the past months of January and February, in March 2024 the increase in traffic handled by the Californian port was more contained having handled a total of 654 thousand TEUs, with a increase of +8.3% on March 2023.