Port of Long Beach off to a great start in 2018, sets another cargo record

April 17, 2018: Port of Long Beach’s terminals have handled almost 1.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) during the period January-March. The surge is 19.4 percent more when compared to first quarter of last year, helping the port record it’s best-ever first quarter. The previous first quarter record was set in 2007.The port serves 175 shipping lines with connections to 217 seaports around the world.In the month of March, cargo throughput reached 575,258 TEUs, an i