The Port of Long Beach is one of Americaa??s premier seaports and a trailblazer in goods movement and environmental stewardship.
Trade valued annually at more than $100 billion moves through Long Beach, making it the second-busiest seaport in the United States. Everything from clothing and shoes to toys, furniture and consumer electronics arrives at the Port before making its way to store shelves throughout the country. Specialized terminals also move petroleum, automobiles, cement, lumber, steel and other products.
A major economic force, the Port supports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach, 316,000 jobs throughout Southern California and 1.4 million jobs throughout the United States. It generates about $16 billion in annual trade-related wages statewide.
With a Green Port Policy guiding efforts to minimize or eliminate negative environmental impacts, the Port also is a catalyst for innovative environmental programs. Serving as a model for ports around the world, the Port of Long Beach pioneered such programs as the Green Flag vessel speed reduction air quality program, Green Leases with environmental covenants and the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan. With these bold initiatives, the Port is dedicated to improving air quality more quickly and aggressively than has ever been attempted by any seaport, anywhere in the world.
For these reasons and more, the Port is recognized internationally as one of the worlda??s best seaports and locally as a partner dedicated to helping the community thrive.
*A World Leader
The Port of Long Beach is one of the world's busiest seaports, a leading gateway for trade between the United States and Asia. It supports millions of jobs nationally and provides consumers and businesses with billions of dollars in goods each year. Herea??s how the numbers break down.
In 2007, the Port handled:
- More than 7.31 million containers (TEUs)
- Cargo valued at more than $140 billion
- More than 87 million metric tons of cargo
- On average, the equivalent of 19,900 20-foot containers (TEUs) each day
- 5,300 vessel calls
The Port's loaded containers account for:
- 33 percent moving through all California ports
- 26 percent moving through all West Coast ports
- 13 percent moving through all U.S. ports
The Port comprises:
- 3,200 acres of land
- 10 piers
- 80 berths
- 71 post-panamax gantry cranes
International ranking
- Long Beach is the second busiest port in the United States
- Long Beach is the 16th busiest container cargo port in the world
- If combined, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles would be the world's fifth-busiest port complex (15.7 million total TEU), after Singapore (27.9 million TEU), Shanghai (26.2 million), Hong Kong (23.9 million), and Shenzhen, China (21.1 million)
Port-related employment
- 30,000 jobs (about one in eight) in Long Beach
- 316,000 jobs (or one in 22) in the five-county Southern California region
- 1.4 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade
Regional economic impacts
- More than $5 billion a year in U.S. Customs revenues from the Long Beach/Los Angeles ports
- About $4.9 billion a year in local, state and general federal taxes from Port-related trade
- More than $47 billion in direct and indirect business sales yearly
- Nearly $14.5 billion in annual trade-related wages
Trading partners
- East Asian trade accounts for more than 90% of the shipments through the Port
- Top trading partners are China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico and Iraq.
Top Imports
- Petroleum
- Electronics
- Plastics
- Furniture
- Clothing
Top Exports
- Petroleum and Petroleum Coke
- Waste Paper
- Chemicals
- Scrap Metal
- Plastic
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