The Port of Los Angeles said this week that it handled 9.2 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEU) in its fiscal year that ended June 30, a record container throughput for any Western Hemisphere port.
The port also reported that June volumes increased 8.1 percent over the same period in 2016, marking the second-busiest June in its 110-year history.
Port officials said that Los Angeles is on track to end the 2017 calendar year exceeding last year’s record volumes of 8.8 million TEUs. Through June, total 2017 cargo volumes are 4.48 million TEUs, an 8.4-percent increase compared to the same period in 2016.
