The Port of Long Beach closed 2021 with a 9.38 million TEU throughput. This marks an 15.7% increase compared to the previous year, when it had achieved its best result ever: 8.11 million twenty-foot containers.
Imports were up by 14.6%, to 4.51 mln TEUs while exports fell by 2.6%, to 1.47 mln TEUs. The number of empty containers rose by 27.5% year-on-year to 3.3 million TEUs.
The port’s CEO, Mario Cordero, considers it an incredible result, accomplished by skilled workers who were able to keep goods moving along the supply chain.
Translation by Giles Foster
