In the third quarter of this year, container traffic in the Port of Long Beach amounted to 2.64 million TEUs, volume that represents an increase of +0.7% over the same period of 2024, the new record for this time of year and the second best result ever being lower only than the historical record of 2.73 million TEUs scored in the last quarter of 2024. In addition, in the period July-September 2025 it was The historical record of container handling was also recorded which amounted to 1.07 million TEUs (+5.5%). The full containers at disembarkation and loading, on the other hand, have decreased respectively by -1.0% and -8.5% to 1.30 million and 272 thousand TEUs.

The slight increase in total traffic in the third quarter of this year was generated by the increase in the year year-on-year of +7.0% recorded in July alone, while in August and in September volumes fell by -1.3% and -3.9%.

In the first nine months of 2025, the Californian port of call handled a total of 7.39 million TEUs, with an increase of +6.8% on the same period of last year, of which 3.58 million full TEUs at landing (+5.6%), 829 thousand full TEUs at boarding (-5.2%) and 2.98 million empty TEUs (+12.5%).