Last month, container traffic in the port of Los Angeles Angeles remained stable having been equal to 958 thousand TEUs, with a slight decrease of -0.2% on August 2024. The suns full containers for export were up by +4.6% having amounted to 127 thousand TEUs. Both full containers are down with 504 thousand TEUs (-1.0%) and empty containers with 326 thousand TEUs (-0.9%).

Commenting on these figures, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, Gene Seroka, has highlighted that in the last few months of July August The Californian port handled almost two million of containers which, he stressed, "is the best for any port in the Western Hemisphere. Dealers and producers - he explained - have continued to procure goods in advance and to anticipate holiday demand and to protect themselves against any changes in the commercial policies". Seroka believes that the volumes of traffic through the Port of Los Angeles will decrease in the remaining in 2025 is "because a large part of the goods intended for the end-of-year holidays are already arrived" and because "economic signals such as the slowing employment growth and the continued inflation are making both the importers than consumers".

In the first eight months of 2025, the Californian port of call handled a total of 6.93 million TEUs, with an increase in by +4.6% over the same period last year, of which 3.60 million full TEUs at landing (+3.4%), 970 thousand full TEUs at boarding (-5.1%) and 2.37 million empty TEUs (+11.1%).