LA Port Handles Import Rush Heading Into 2025: Supply Lines

The busiest port in the US is heading until 2025 handling a flurry of imports as companies try to beat President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods and a strike that threatens to shut trade gateways on the eastern half of the country.

This holiday week the Port of Los Angeles will handle about 129,000 inbound containers, a 73% increase from the comparable week a year ago, according to estimates in the Wabtec Port Optimizer’s latest readings on Monday. That would cap a strong year in which imports rebounded from a post-pandemic slump in 2023.

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