Long Beach Container Volume up 17.5% in January

Cargo volume grew 17.5 percent at the Port of Long Beach in January, including a 19.5 percent jump in imports and an 8.2 percent rise in exports compared to the same month one year ago. Port terminals moved 536,263 TEUs (or twenty-foot equivalent container units) in January, including 273,918 TEUs of imports, the highest volume of import containers for a January since 2007, the port said. Exports rose to 126,714 TEUs, and empties were up 23.1 percent to 135,631 TEUs. The port authority said the Port of Long Beach is "Big Ship Ready," and the cargo increases in recent months are in part due to the more frequent use of larger ships and the addition of service lines to Long Beach.