L.A. doesn't love N.Y. over 'We're No. 1' seaport claims
It's good to be No. 1. That's the spot held for more than two decades by the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, a combined international trade power...
It's good to be No. 1. That's the spot held for more than two decades by the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, a combined international trade powerhouse that moves nearly 40% of the products imported from Asia to U.S. stores and factories. Tens of thousands of jobs across Southern California depend on a steady stream of imports and exports through San Pedro Harbor. Despite pandemic supply chain snafus, an enormous floating traffic jam of ships and a dockworker contract dispute at various points during the last three years, the neighboring ports have moved enough big steel cargo boxes to stay at the top of the import-export heap.