{"id":204839,"date":"2026-03-05T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:02:31","slug":"port-of-long-beach-starts-2026-leading-nation-in-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204839\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach Starts 2026 Leading Nation in Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Long Beach kicked off the new year as the nation\u2019s busiest seaport, marking its second-busiest January on record, Port CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba announced Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4cNtvycDpxs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">during a virtual media briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 847,765 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo containers last month, down 11% from January 2025, which remains the Port\u2019s best January and second-busiest month in its 115-year history. Imports were down 13.1% to 409,818 TEUs and exports rose 0.8% to 99,478 TEUs. Empty containers moving through the Port declined 11.5% to 338,470 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are leading the nation in trade, and providing a safe harbor in the sea of tariff and trade uncertainty for our customers and the goods movement industry,\u201d Hacegaba said Wednesday during the first of his monthly Supply Chain Insight virtual media briefings. \u201cNo matter what happens with cargo volume, the Port of Long Beach has the capacity, infrastructure and workforce to move goods quickly, efficiently and reliably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur cargo numbers show the Port of Long Beach continues to be the Port of Choice for our customers,\u201d said Long Beach Harbor Commission President Frank Colonna. \u201cWe are well on our way to another busy year for cargo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decline in cargo volume follows a record-setting year of 9.9 million TEUs moved in 2025, when uncertainty prompted shippers to move goods before tariffs and reciprocal tariffs were implemented last spring.<\/p>\n<p>Hacegaba said he anticipates continued uncertainty following the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling last week declaring two-thirds of tariffs imposed last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this decision ruled on the legality of the IEEPA tariffs, it did little to remove the uncertainty we\u2019ve seen \u2013 and continue to see \u2013 across the global supply chain,\u201d Hacegaba said. \u201cOur customers are seeking clarity on whether tariffs already paid will be refunded, and consumers are seeking relief from higher prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/polb.com\/port-info\/news-and-press\/port-of-long-beach-starts-2026-leading-nation-in-trade-02-25-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Long Beach kicked off the new year as the nation\u2019s busiest seaport, marking its second-busiest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-204839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}