Port of Oakland

The optimistic forecast for the coming year applies to all West Coast ports.

Transportation industry professionals who spoke Wednesday at the annual Pulse of the Port seminar sponsored by the Port of Long Beach agreed that peak-season 2012 will certainly be better than last year, and they indicated this could actually be a relatively strong year for containerized imports.

This year, carriers and third-party logistics providers say their customers are generally optimistic about overall economic growth as well as retail sales, so they expect peak-season 2012 will return to the traditional pattern of strong imports from July through October.

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