In November, exports from Los Angeles rose nearly 18% to 149,148 cargo containers compared with 126,602 during the same month last year. Long Beach’s export gains were more modest, but rose 4% to 114,283 compared with 109,850 a year earlier. One grain terminal manager now employs 50 workers, up from 30 at this time last year. … He credited the weak U.S. dollar for making grains more affordable to customers in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and Vietnam. “We keep hearing that the Chinese government wants every child to have an egg and a glass of milk for breakfast. That is going to require a lot of [feed] grain.”
