The US port of Long Beach – along with neighbouring Los Angeles ranked the two busiest in the country - has come out with trumpets blaring about hitting record container throughputs in July.
It reported an 18.4% increase over the same month in 2014, making it a record month in the port’s 104-year history and beating its previous record pre-recession in 2007.
In the first seven months of the year, during the early part of which all the West Coast ports suffered serious congestion from labour go-slows and a full-scale strike - Long Beach’s total cargo growth was only up 2.8%.
US port trumpets record growth
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