[2010] was the biggest year-to-year increase in the port’s 100-year history, said Richard Steinke, Port of Long Beach executive director at the annual State of the Port address.
But while 2010 was a banner year in terms of growth – far outpacing what many economists had earlier expected – the port has a long way to go before it surpasses its best-ever year, 2007, when 7.3 million TEUs passed through Long Beach.