The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have made tremendous strides in accelerating container movement in and out of the marine terminals. Most significantly, night and Saturday off-peak shifts run by PierPass at the 13 port terminals now handle as many as 17,000 container moves per shift compared with less than 15,000 for the average day shift — leaving the gridlock of 2004 a fast-fading memory. Our terminals are some of the busiest and most productive in the world. In fact, Long Beach was tied for <a>North America’s most productive port in a July 2013 Journal of Commerce report</a>....

Despite what some trucking interests say, the Southern California ports have made tremendous strides in accelerating container movement into and out of the marine terminals.

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For importers and forwarders, the blank sailings mean the resulting schedule disruptions and “rolling” of cargo they are already experiencing at Asian load ports will force them to book more of their cargo with carriers they can count on to maintain schedule integrity.

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