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 | Founded in 1911, the 3,200-acre Port of Long Beach is a premier gateway for trade between the United States and Asia |
A World Leader
The Port of Long Beach is one of the world's busiest seaports, a leading gateway for trade between the United States and Asia. It supports millions of jobs nationally and provides consumers and businesses with billions of dollars in goods each year. Here’s how the numbers break down.
In 2007, the Port handled: More than 7.31 million containers (TEUs) Cargo valued at more than $140 billion More than 87 million metric tons of cargo On average, the equivalent of 19,900 20-foot containers (TEUs) each day 5,300 vessel calls
The Port's loaded containers account for: 33 percent moving through all California ports 26 percent moving through all West Coast ports 13 percent moving through all U.S. ports
The Port comprises: International ranking Long Beach is the second busiest port in the United States Long Beach is the 16th busiest container cargo port in the world If combined, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles would be the world's fifth-busiest port complex (15.7 million total TEU), after Singapore (27.9 million TEU), Shanghai (26.2 million), Hong Kong (23.9 million), and Shenzhen, China (21.1 million)
Port-related employment 30,000 jobs (about one in eight) in Long Beach 316,000 jobs (or one in 22) in the five-county Southern California region 1.4 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade
Regional economic impacts More than $5 billion a year in U.S. Customs revenues from the Long Beach/Los Angeles ports About $4.9 billion a year in local, state and general federal taxes from Port-related trade More than $47 billion in direct and indirect business sales yearly Nearly $14.5 billion in annual trade-related wages
Trading partners East Asian trade accounts for more than 90% of the shipments through the Port Top trading partners are China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico and Iraq.
Top Imports Electronics Plastics Furniture Clothing
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