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The Port of Long Beach, administered as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is a container port in the United States, which adjoins Port of Los Angeles. [3] Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km 2 ) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California .
International Transportation Service (ITS) is an American container terminal company that deals with the receipt and shipment of containerized cargo in domestic and foreign trade. [1] It also focuses on marine cargo handling, vessel stevedoring, on-dock rail, and staffing services. [ 2 ]
The vast majority of containers moved by large, ocean-faring container ships are 20-foot (1 TEU) and 40-foot (2 TEU) ISO-standard shipping containers, with 40-foot units outnumbering 20-foot units to such an extent that the actual number of containers moved is between 55%–60% of the number of TEUs counted. [1]
The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles together account for approximately 40% of the shipping containers entering the United States. [7] More than three-quarters of the containers leaving Los Angeles were empty in July 2021 whereas about two-thirds of the containers leaving U.S. ports are typically filled with exports.
The port is the busiest port in the United States by container volume, the 19th-busiest container port in the world, and the 10th-busiest worldwide when combined with the neighboring Port of Long Beach. The port is also the number-one freight gateway in the United States when ranked by the value of shipments passing through it. [16]
The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile (32 km) freight rail "expressway" [1] owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (reporting mark ATAX) that connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the transcontinental mainlines of the BNSF Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad that terminate near downtown Los Angeles, California. [2]
The CSCL Long Beach was built in 2007 by Samsung Heavy Industries, Korea. [1] The CSCL Long Beach is 336 metres long, and 46 metres across the beam. [1] This container vessel has a deadweight tonnage of 111,700. [1] The vessel has a TEU capacity of 9,580 and is propelled by a 93,120 BHP MAN B&W engine, which gives the vessel a maximum speed of ...
It is a Class III railroad [3] that operates freight service between Paris and Maysville. [4] In 1991 CSX Transportation acquired Transkentucky Railroad Transportation, Inc. and Transcontinental Terminals, Inc. The railroad is now owned by MB Railroad (Midwest & Bluegrass Rail), mainly providing transload services.