U.S West Coast ports trade report – June

May saw the Port of Los Angeles enjoy its busiest month since last August. Still, inbound loads (409,150) in the fifth month of the year were down 4.4% from the same month in 2019, while outbound loads (101,741) were off by 39.2%. Total container traffic through the first five months of this year (3,304,344) came up 12.4% shy of the mark set in 2019. Across the road at the Port of Long Beach, historic comparisons are skewed by a surge in May imports last year but also by an unusually languid month of May in 2019.