{"id":361522,"date":"2026-06-15T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:07:08","slug":"rail-news-port-of-long-beach-reports-increased-cargo-flow-in-may-for-railroad-career-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361522\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail News &#8211; Port of Long Beach reports increased cargo flow in May. For Railroad Career Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/news\/\" class=\"catBack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rail News Home<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"catBack\" href=\"https:\/\/www.progressiverailroading.com\/intermodal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intermodal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"viewRt\" style=\"float: right;\">6\/15\/2026<\/p>\n<p>Rail News: Intermodal&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>         span {<br \/>\n                min-width: 0 !important<br \/>\n            }<br \/>\n        ]]]]>]]><\/p>\n<p>        <br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Port-of-Long-Beach2-sized.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"articleImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            The Port of Long Beach has handled 4,050,247 TEUs through May, up 0.2% year over year.<br \/>\n            Photo \u2013 Port of Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>            <br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/polb.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port of Long Beach<\/a> (POLB) handled 842,030 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in May, marking a 31.7% year-over-year increase and registering the third busiest May on record.<\/p>\n<p>Imports rose 40% to 418,851 TEUs, while exports increased 32.9% to 109,168 TEUs and empty containers were up 21.8% to 314,012 TEUs, port officials said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Through May, the port has handled 4,050,247 TEUs, up 0.2% compared to the first five months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Port CEO Noel Hacegaba and International Longshore &amp; Warehouse Union Local 13 President Mario \u201cMoe\u201d Medina <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QM0kghXG6tA?si=wiZkpjHSkcvQx3Y1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared together in a video<\/a> to announce the May cargo numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail News Home Intermodal 6\/15\/2026 Rail News: Intermodal&#13; span { min-width: 0 !important } ]]]]&gt;]]&gt; The Port of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-361522","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\/361522","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=361522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}