Excerpts from Transport Topics:
Container traffic at the two biggest West Coast ports was mixed in September, with a significant drop in Long Beach because of the Hanjin bankruptcy but a gain in Los Angeles, which had less exposure.
The Port of Long Beach reported that longshoremen handled 546,805 industry-standard 20-foot equivalent unit containers, or TEUs, a 16.6% drop from the 655,624 last September. Port officials in California blamed the disruption from the Hanjin ships not arriving in Long Beach and the lack of Hanjin containers on other vessels in the CKYHE Alliance.
The Port of Los Angeles reported it handled 747,707 TEUs in September, a 2.4% increase from 730,306 one year ago.