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 2009, the Port handled:

• 5,067,597 containers (TEUs)
• Cargo valued at more than $120 billion
• More than 70 million metric tons of cargo
• On average, the equivalent of 13,900 20-foot containers (TEUs) each day
• 4,746 vessels

The Port's loaded containers account for:

• 1/3 moving through all California ports
• 1/4 moving through all West Coast ports
• more than 1 in 10 moving through all U.S. ports

The Port comprises:

• 3,200 acres of land
• 10 piers
• 80 berths
• 71 post-panamax gantry cranes

International ranking

• Long Beach is the second busiest port in the United States
• Long Beach is the 17th 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 (14.4 million total TEU), after Singapore (30.0 million TEU), Shanghai (28.0 million), Hong Kong (24.5 million), and Shenzhen, China (21.4 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, by tonnage, are China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Iraq, Ecuador, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Top Imports

• Crude oil
• Electronics
• Plastics
• Furniture
• Clothing