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Another gangbuster month for the nation’s top port.
The Port of Los Angeles today reported handling 946,966 TEUs in April for its best April in the port’s history and its ninth consecutive month of year-over-year increases.
Year-to-date, overall cargo volume in the first four months of the year increased 42% compared to 2020 with the port processed 3,539,397 TEUs.
“We have set records six of the last nine months, and the other three months were very close to new milestones,” said Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka. “It’s truly been an unprecedented run here in Los Angeles. I’m grateful to our dedicated labor force and waterfront partners who work so hard to keep improving our services.”
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April 8, 2021
The Port of Long Beach reported its busiest month ever in March as imports continue to pour into U.S. seaports.
The Port of Long Beach says the new record comes as consumers “continued to practice physical distancing guidelines in March and turned their computers into virtual shopping malls.”
Although March is traditionally one of the slowest months on the shipping calendar, dockworkers and terminal operators moved 840,387 twenty-foot equivalent units last month, a 62.3% jump from March 2020 and marking the largest year-over-year increase for a single month.
The previous “best month” record of 815,885 TEUs, set in December 2020, was surpassed by 24,502 TEUs. It was also the third time in the Port of Long Beach’s 110-year history that it has handled more than 800,000 TEUs in a single month.
San Pedro Port Largely Excluded From Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal
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One out of 50 Americans derive their employment from the economic powerhouse at the combined ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Even so, less than one percent of the infrastructure spending proposed last week by President Joe Biden would be spent on all “inland waterways, coastal ports, land ports of entry, and ferries,” according to an independent analysis done for The Epoch Times. The analysis is based on the White House’s “fact sheet,” published last week to accompany Biden’s so-called infrastructure proposal.
Of course, it has not yet been disclosed how much of that spending would go toward improving coastal ports, as opposed to improving river waterways, border crossings and ferries.