{"id":460917,"date":"2026-09-11T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460917\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:12:11","slug":"port-of-long-beach-records-increased-cargo-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460917\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach records increased cargo growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/POLB_4-24aerials-23-696x463.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ITS Port of Long Beach\"\/>ITS, Port of Long Beach, Yang Ming, aerial<br \/>\nITS Port of Long Beach<br \/>\nAerials over Port on April 2024<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Long Beach handled 919,992 TEUs in August 2026, the busiest August on record and the fifth-strongest single month in the port\u2019s 115-year history, representing a 2% increase compared to August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The result was announced jointly by Port CEO Dr Noel Hacegaba and Captain Stacey Crecy, commander of US Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Imports rose 3.6% to 456,100 TEUs, exports increased 4 percent to 99,754 TEUs and empty containers edged down 0.39% to 364,138 TEUs.<\/p>\n<p>Through the first eight months of 2026, the Port of Long Beach has handled 6,678,078 TEUs, up 1.3% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hacegaba described the August figures as evidence that shippers continue to adapt to tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty while maintaining confidence in the port\u2019s ability to deliver, characterising Long Beach as a safe and secure gateway that customers can rely on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITS, Port of Long Beach, Yang Ming, aerial ITS Port of Long Beach Aerials over Port on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-460917","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\/460917","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=460917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}