{"id":363971,"date":"2026-06-17T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:32:09","slug":"long-beach-cargo-flow-rises-31-7-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363971\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach cargo flow rises 31.7% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Author:<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oleksandr-batrak-558259112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n        Batrak Oleksandr<br \/>\n    <\/a><br \/>\n    \u2014 Editor-in-Chief at Railway Supply<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-date mb-4\">17.06.2026 <\/p>\n<p>Long Beach cargo flow rose sharply in May, with the Port of Long Beach handling 842,030 TEUs, up 31.7% from the same month last year and enough for its third-busiest May on record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railway.supply\/long-beach-cargo-flow-reaches-third-busiest-may\/img_2797\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-181916 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-181916 size-full\" title=\"Long Beach cargo flow rises 31.7% in May\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2797.webp\" alt=\"Long Beach cargo flow rises 31.7% in May\" width=\"1200\" height=\"664\"  \/><\/a>Photo: Port of Long Beach<br \/>\nLong Beach cargo flow by container type<\/p>\n<p>Imports reached 418,851 TEUs, up 40% year over year. Exports rose 32.9% to 109,168 TEUs, while empty containers increased 21.8% to 314,012 TEUs, port officials said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/polb.com\/port-info\/news-and-press\/ilwu-port-of-long-beach-announce-cargo-gains-for-may-06-12-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>\u2060.<\/p>\n<p>POLB cargo volume through May<\/p>\n<p>Through May, POLB handled 4,050,247 TEUs, 0.2% higher than the total recorded during 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 appeared together in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QM0kghXG6tA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>\u2060 to announce the May cargo numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author: Batrak Oleksandr \u2014 Editor-in-Chief at Railway Supply 17.06.2026 Long Beach cargo flow rose sharply in May, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,136060,112643,141032],"class_list":["post-363971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-port-infrastructure","tag-rail-transportation-in-the-united-states","tag-railway-freight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363971","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=363971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}