{"id":360474,"date":"2026-06-14T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:06:09","slug":"port-of-long-beach-cargo-volumes-jump-31-7-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360474\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach cargo volumes jump 31.7% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/No-Play_noel_mario-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"ILWU Local 13 President Mario \u201cMoe\u201d Medina joined Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba to announce the impressive cargo numbers for May.\" title=\"No-Play_noel_mario\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Port of Long Beach handled 842,030 TEUs in May, an increase of 31.7% compared with the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The result made May 2026 the port\u2019s third-busiest May on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Imports rose 40% year-on-year to 418,851 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Exports increased 32.9% to 109,168 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Empty container volumes climbed 21.8% to 314,012 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The port attributed the strong performance to the efforts of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">During the first five months of 2026, the Port of Long Beach handled 4.05 million TEUs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That figure was 0.2% higher than the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The port said current volumes keep it on pace with its busiest year on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Long Beach handled 842,030 TEUs in May, an increase of 31.7% compared with the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-360474","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\/360474","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=360474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}