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Long Beach, California — Los Angeles and Long Beach are home to the largest port complex in the Western Hemisphere. Last year, 40% of the nation's imports, worth nearly $500 billion, passed ...
A dockworker shortage at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ended Friday night after halting cargo traffic at the complex. Southern California ports reopen. Shutdown highlights high-stakes ...
Other ports on the Corps of Engineers list include the Port of Houston in the number one spot. South Louisiana is second, then Corpus Christi; New York/New Jersey; Long Beach, California; New Orleans; Beaumont and Baton Rouge. As of May 2024 the Port of Lake Charles surged to the number 10 on the list below. [2]
A wildfire in Southern California has destroyed homes and prompted evacuations in Malibu, the iconic, affluent and mountainous beach community. 'Dangerous situation': Powerful, erratic Santa Ana ...
The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles (182 km) of on-dock rail. The port's top imports were furniture, automobile parts, apparel, footwear, and electronics. In 2019, the port's top exports were wastepaper, pet and animal feed, scrap metal and soybeans. [4]
The port also redeveloped the historic Broadway Pier to create a second cruise-ship pier and terminal, which opened in December 2010. [6] As of 2019, San Diego is the third-busiest cruise port in California. Three cruise lines home-port in San Diego: Holland America, Celebrity Cruises, and Disney Cruise Line. [7]
Union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get a ban on automation.
Dog-hole ports were the small, rural ports on the West Coast of the United States between Central California and Southern Oregon that operated between the mid-1800s until the 1930s. They were commonly called dog-holes because the schooners that served them would have to be able to "turn around in a harbor barely small enough for a dog".