{"id":463441,"date":"2026-09-14T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463441\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:34:09","slug":"rail-news-freight-traffic-at-port-of-long-beach-rises-in-august-for-railroad-career-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463441\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail News &#8211; Freight traffic at Port of Long Beach rises in August. 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;\">9\/14\/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\/09\/PR0920-POLB.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"articleImg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Through August, the port has handled 6,678,078 TEUs, up 1.3% compared to the first eight months of 2025.<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 919,992 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in August, a 2% year-over-year increase from August 2025, making it the port\u2019s busiest August on record.<\/p>\n<p>Imports rose 3.6% to 456,100 TEUs, while exports increased 4% to 99,754 TEUs and empty containers dipped 0.39% to 364,138 TEUs, port officials said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Through August, the port has handled 6,678,078 TEUs, up 1.3% compared to the first eight months of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Port CEO Noel Hacegaba and Capt. Stacey Crecy, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, appeared together in a video to announce the August cargo numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur August numbers tell us that shippers continue to adapt to tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty and are confident in the Port of Long Beach\u2019s ability to deliver,\u201d Hacegaba said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail News Home Intermodal 9\/14\/2026 Rail News: Intermodal&#13; span { min-width: 0 !important } ]]]]&gt;]]&gt; Through August, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-463441","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\/463441","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=463441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}