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Founded in 1911, the 3,200-acre Port of Long Beach is a premier gateway for trade between the United States and Asia

A World Leader

The Port of Long Beach is one of the world's busiest seaports, a leading gateway for trade between the United States and Asia. It supports over a million jobs nationally and generates billions of dollars in economic activity each year. Here’s how the numbers break down.

In 2011, the Port handled:

• 6,061,085 containers (TEUs)
• Cargo valued at $155 billion
• 76.6 million metric tons of cargo
• On average, the equivalent of 16,600 20-foot containers (TEUs) each day
• 4,898 vessel calls

The Port's loaded containers account for:

• 1/3 moving through all California ports
• 1/4 moving through all West Coast ports
• nearly 1 in 5 moving through all U.S. ports

The Port comprises:

• 3,200 acres of land
• 10 piers
• 80 berths
• 66 post-Panamax gantry cranes

International ranking

• Long Beach is the second busiest port in the United States
• Long Beach is the 18th busiest container cargo port in the world
• If combined, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles would be the world's eighth-busiest port complex by container volume, after Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China), Busan (S. Korea), Ningbo (China) and Guangzhou (China).

Port-related employment

• 30,000 jobs (about one in eight) in Long Beach
• 316,000 jobs (or one in 22) in the five-county Southern California region
• 1.4 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade

Regional economic impacts

• More than $5 billion a year in U.S. Customs revenues from the Long Beach/Los Angeles ports
• About $4.9 billion a year in local, state and general federal taxes from Port-related trade
• More than $47 billion in direct and indirect business sales yearly
• Nearly $14.5 billion in annual trade-related wages

Trading partners

• East Asian trade accounts for more than 90% of the shipments through the Port
• Top trading partners by tonnage are; China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Iraq, Australia, Ecuador and Indonesia.

Top Imports

• Crude oil
• Electronics
• Plastics
• Furniture
• Clothing