Your Shoes, Pants and Car May Have Come Through the Port of Long Beach
By C. MacDonald
LONG BEACH, CALIF.– There’s a good chance your cell phone, shoes, pants, coffee and car entered the United States, probably through the Port of Long Beach.
Every year, $140 billion worth of cargo passes across the port’s docks–imports bound for store shelves; exports leaving for foreign destinations.
The busy Port of Long Beach, which gets more than 5,000 vessel visits a year, has seven container terminals with 66 cranes as high as 15 stories, capable of lifting up to 65 tons, that load and unload gigantic cargo ships over three football fields long.
Just one of these vessels with 7,000 to 10,000 containers or more, can carry enough shoes to supply one pair for nearly every person living in California. Although 75% of the port’s business involves….read more>
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