Last month, the Port of Long Beach marked its new all-time record for container traffic having handled A total of 913,873 TEUs, with an increase of +33.9% on August 2023 and an increase of 6,657 TEUs compared to the previous Monthly peak recorded in May 2021. The new record is was totaled thanks to volumes never achieved before landings of full containers, which amounted to 456,868 TEUs (+40.4%) and the handling of empty containers amounted to 352,360 TEUs (+33.7%). The loading of full containers increased by +12.0% to 104,646 TEUs.

In the first eight months of 2024, the Californian port of call handled a total of 6.09 million TEUs, with a An increase of +21.9% over the same period of the previous year year, of which 2.98 million full containers at unloading (+27.1%), 786 thousand full containers at embarkation (-10.5%) and 2.32 million empty containers (+31.1%).