LA box volumes slow in 2007

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27 Dec 2007

The Port of Los Angeles' centennial anniversary couldn't beef up its volumes with container throughput declining over the 2006 11-month figures. The number of containers handled during the first 11 months of the year was 3,645,479 TEUs, down 243,855 TEUs, or 6.27 percent, from the same period in 2006. The lower numbers represented a trend that was present most of the year in the eastbound Pacific. Containerised imports moving through all West Coast ports increased only 0.5 percent in the first ten months of the year. Imports normally increase about eight percent or more a year.The most dramatic change in November was in the level of empty containers transported through the port’s terminals. Empties dropped 10.3 percent to 215,841 TEUs in November.