Port of Long Beach sets new record for container volumes in January

February 12, 2018: The Port of Long Beach (POLB) saw its busiest month ever in January as its container volumes reached an all-time high. Long Beach handled 657,830 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in January, up by 12.9 percent compared to same month last year. It’s for the first time that the port surpassed 600,000 containers in January. 2017 was the busiest year in the port’s 107-years of history, as it moved 7.54 million TEUs.“January and February is expect