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Tariffs Threat Boosts Port of Long Beach Volume

[ February 28, 2025   //   Gary G Burrows ]

The Port of Long Beach started 2025 with its strongest January on record and its second-busiest month ever, largely driven by retailers moving cargo ahead of the anticipated tariffs on goods from China, Mexico and Canada.
Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 952,733 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in January, up 41.4 percent from the same month last year and surpassing the previous record, set in January 2022, by 18.9 percent. Imports jumped 45 percent to 471,649 TEUs and exports rose 14 percent to 98,655 TEUs. Empty containers moving through the Port climbed 45.9 percent to 382,430 TEUs.
The strong start to 2025 marks the port’s eighth consecutive monthly year-over-year cargo increase and follows a record-breaking year with 9.65 million TEUs moved in 2024.
Complete cargo results are available at polb.com/statistics.

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