Officials at both the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, despite late-year slowdowns, said the cargo gateways were still on track to achieve strong numbers by the end of 2025, despite a year of economic uncertainty with tariffs. The comments came following the release by both ports this month of their November cargo numbers.<\/p>\n
In the Port of Long Beach, a record year for 2024 is anticipated. That port is on course to reach its \u201call-time busiest year, exceeding the record-setting 9.6 million cargo containers moved in 2024,\u201d as reported in a December news release issued by the Port of Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Numbers were also strong at the Port of Los Angeles, which processed 782,249 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in November, a decrease of 12% compared to last year\u2019s November 2024 elevated cargo levels. With one month left in the year, the port has handled 9,447,731 TEUs, 1% more than 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven with all the trade uncertainty, we\u2019ll finish 2025 north of 10 million TEUs, putting this year firmly in our top three of all time,\u201d Port of L.A. Executive Director Gene Seroka said at a media briefing in December, noting also that the traffic is flowing smoothly. \u00a0\u201cAll that cargo moved without congestion and not a single ship backed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Port of Long Beach achieved its second-busiest November, with dockworkers and terminal operators moving 817,561 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo, down 7.5% from the record set in November 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cCargo moved at a steady rate with no congestion or disruptions at the Port of Long Beach as consumers, businesses and supply chain partners endured an extraordinary amount of uncertainty caused by shifting trade policies throughout 2025,\u201d said Port of Long Beach CEO Mario Cordero. \u201cWe will continue to move trade smoothly through the end of the year, and look forward to a moderate increase in cargo for 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his monthly virtual news briefing earlier in December, Seroka described 2025 as \u201ca rollercoaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the new trade policy came out, he said, \u201cmany importers simply slammed on the brakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
But when policies softened and trade negotiations extended, he said, \u201cimporters saw windows of opportunity and they really brought a lot of cargo through the supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noting that \u201cJuly was the second month in our storied history that we moved more than a million container units,\u201d Seroka noted that the Port of L.A. was \u201cthe only port to do that even once.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo,\u201d he added \u201cas we land here at the end of 2025, even with all these ups and downs that were largely based on information about policy, we land on our third busiest year ever at more than 10 million container units.\u201d<\/p>\n
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