Port Volumes

Explore how the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach closed out 2025 with historic achievements—record cargo volumes, operational efficiency gains, and leading environmental performance across the nation’s busiest seaport complex despite market volatility and trade uncertainty.

Analyze the latest U.S. West Coast container trade data showing how the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while still consolidating Pacific trade, saw shifts in their share of national containerized import and export tonnage through October 2025 amid broader coastal market dynamics and China trade turbulence.

Unpack the latest maritime data in “Thank Heavens for Scrap Paper,” exploring collapsing electric vehicle export volumes, shifts in containerized freight patterns, and how scrap paper tonnage trends are reshaping port traffic and supply chain dynamics in early 2026.

Explore how containerized trade between the U.S. and China has steadily declined over the past decade—dropping China’s share of inbound and outbound tonnage at major U.S. West Coast ports—and what this shift reveals about tariffs, supply chains, and evolving global trade patterns.

Get the latest data on December 2025 container traffic across North American seaports, including TEU volumes at major gateways like Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Vancouver, and Prince Rupert, year-over-year trends, and insights into annual totals and regional performance.

Dive into comprehensive November 2025 container traffic statistics across North America’s major ports—including the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, New York/New Jersey and others—with year-over-year TEU trends, regional volume shifts, and broader trade patterns shaping the end of the year.

Explore the actual November TEU tallies reported by major North American ports, revealing variations in container volume performance, year-over-year comparisons, and how key gateways are navigating evolving trade conditions in late 2025.

Learn how California’s inland waterways—critical channels connecting the Sacramento and Stockton deep-water ports to the Pacific—face infrastructure challenges like severe shoaling, aging bridges, and insufficient dredging funding that threaten navigation, ag-export flows and foreign trade worth millions annually.

Discover 2025 trade highlights for avocados, tree nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios), and bulk wine — including Mexico’s dominant role in U.S. avocado imports, export trends amid China trade disruptions, and resilient maritime wine shipment volumes through key gateways like the Port of Oakland.