Port of Long Beach Boat Tour

Along with the Long Beach Young Professionals we took a boat tour of the second busiest port in the United States tonight…..the Port of Long Beach. It was crazy to see the massive cargo ships front and center. It’s hard to convey how huge these behemoths really are. This video and picture don’t do it any justice:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHQ6SjOhIGU/

Each year, the Port handles:

• More than 6.8 million 20-foot container units (TEUs)
• Cargo valued at $180 billion
• 82.3 million metric tons of cargo
• 2,000 vessel calls

The Port’s loaded containers account for:

• 1/3 moving through all California ports
• 1/4 moving through all West Coast ports
• nearly 1 in 5 moving through all U.S. ports

Port-related employment

• 30,000 jobs (about one in eight) in Long Beach
• 316,000 jobs (or one in 22) in the five-county Southern California region
• 1.4 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade

Thank you to the Long Beach Chamber and Long Beach Young Professionals for putting this on.

-JK