A record-setting 10.7 million 20-foot containers passed through the Port of Los Angeles in 2021, up 13% from the previous record set in 2018.
And that pace is set to continue, according to Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles."I don't see us falling off a cliff," Seroka said."I don't see the American consumer changing their buying habits."For 18 months now, the Port of Los Angeles has received 900,000 container units per month. Pre-pandemic, just one month with numbers like that would have been a record. "We're running now about 17-18 ships a day that are working in port.
' They wanted to get their orders into factories before their competitors did, they didn't want to be the 'paper goods person of 2021'," said Seroka.Seroka met with President Joe Biden and other transportation leaders at the White House in mid-October. Seroka says the economy was the President's biggest concern and that Biden wanted"all hands-on deck and he wanted everybody open every day, as long as they could.
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