Port of Los Angeles Tops 1 Million TEUs in Record June

By Lori Ann LaRocco – The Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest container seaport, processed more than 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in June, making it the busiest June in the port’s 118-year history.

“It was also our third-best month ever, and the third time we’ve crossed the 1 million TEU threshold,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles. “No other port in the Western Hemisphere has hit the million mark even once.”

Seroka said the port handled 535,000 import TEUs in June, up 13% year over year and 18% above the five-year