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Container throughput decreased notably in February at each of the Pacific Southwest (PSW) ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland.

Los Angeles handled 502,663 TEUs of containers last month, which plunged 10.20% year on year. As for loaded containers, imports and exports both suffered double-digit declines, going down 10.74% to 254,225 TEUs and 10.29% to 131,807 TEUs, respectively. Empty containers totaled 116,632 TEUs, which shrank 8.92%. In the first two months, the port processed 1,032,091 TEUs, which plunged 17.12%.

In the month in question, 313,114 TEUs were moved to and from Long Beach, diminishing 20.1% from a year earlier. Full containers incurred decreases of more than 20% in both directions, with imports going down 24.7% to 204,462 TEUs and exports, down 22.9% to 110,711 TEUs. Empties waned 3.9% to 97,941 TEUs. In January and February, a total of 842,604 TEUs were carried to and from the port, plummeting 19.4%.

Meanwhile, Oakland registered a more considerable decline in foreign-trade container lifting than the aforementioned twin ports in February, handling 117,947 TEUs, which sank 33.7% from the corresponding month of 2014. Loaded containers recorded decreases of over 30% in both ways, with inbound shipments went down 39% to 35,923 TEUs and outbound containers, 34.9% to 51,728 TEUs. In the first two month, container throughput amounted to 256,002 TEUs, which slid 31.6%.


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