“We had 752,000 (container) moves in our container terminals (in June 2018), which is a record for a single month,” Noel Hacegaba, port chief commercial officer said at the port’s bi-weekly meeting, Monday, July 9. “The last record was set in July 2017 – 720,000 (containers). We’re ecstatic about this figure.”
Of the 752,188 total TEUs that moved across Long Beach docks in June, 384,095 were imports – a 14.5 percent increase over June 2017, while 135,168 units were exports, a 14.3 percent rise over the same month last year. Port data also show that 232,926 of the containers were empties. Empty units are typically being sent back to Asia so they can be refilled with goods.
Not only did the port experience a nearly 14.2 percent year-over-year increase in goods movement last month, data show that for the first six months of the year – January through June – the port moved about 14.5 percent more containers than during the corresponding period in 2017, Hacegaba said.
