The Port of Los Angeles joined its Long Beach neighbor in breaking yet another cargo record last month, officials said Wednesday, April 14 — and is on pace to have the best fiscal year in history for any port in the Western Hemisphere.
More than 957,000 TEUs — the container measurement standard used — poured into the Port of LA last month, said Port of Los Angeles Director Gene Seroka.
For perspective, Seroka added, if those containers were placed end to end, they “would stretch from Los Angeles to New York and halfway back again across the country.”
Similarly, the Port of Long Beach earlier reported that March was its busiest month on record.
But the surge in imports has had some consequences. Both the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, for example, have seen a backlog of ships waiting to drop off cargo — creating a line of container vessels stretching along the coast into south Orange County. Some ships have had to wait at anchor for as long as a week before making to the twin ports.