Port of Long Beach TEUs Year To Date [Container shipping]

Port of Long Beach ^ | October 20, 2009 | Port of Long Beach

[Vince Ferrer]

Container Trade in TEUs*
2009 Year-to-Date

*TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units or 20-foot-long cargo container

**Preliminary estimate

	Loaded Inbound	Loaded Outbound	Empties	Total Containers
January	200,588	88,510	110,197	399,295
February	149,299	92,781	75,962	318,042
March	186,450	117,674	70,007	374,131
April	199,051	112,976	96,678	408,705
May	208,591	121,064	89,900	419,555
June	206,358	114,107	92,882	413,347
July	221,719	108,420	102,874	433,013
August	249,920	130,623	112,796	493,339
September	224,924	109,337	106,103	440,364
October
November
December

Year-to-Date	1,846,900	995,492	857,399	3,699,791
YTD % Change	-23.8%	-26.3%	-24.2%	-24.6%

[Vince Ferrer]

Here is a summary from the Port of Long Beach for all of the container traffic in 2009. I think now would be a good time to post a year long look back at shipping, and this summary shows about a 25% decline in shipping traffic, which is a pretty consistent number in rail, truck, idle ships, etc.

I wanted to post this now, even with a few months left in the year, because this is about the first year anniversary of the shipping collapse. From now on, the year on year comparisons will not be as dramatic, and the final year tally will probably not be around -25%, but more like -15% or so. But that doean't mean things are moving up, just that the end of the year will be comparing itself with the begging of the collapse late last year, and bring the average down. The "new normal" is still -25% from its peak in 2007.

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