Vessel Size and Call Trends and Average Container Throughput per Call, Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: 2005–2015

Key: TEU = twenty-foot equivalent unit.

Figure

This stacked bar graph illustrates vessel size, call trends, and average container throughput per call for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The x-axis represents time and ranges from 2005 through 2015. The left y-axis represents number of container ship calls and ranges from 0 through 3,500. The right y-axis represents number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and ranges from 0 through 8,000. Number of container ship calls fluctuates from year to year, peaking just above 3,000 in 2006, and falli

Dataset Excel:

F3-10 NO UPDATES Vessel Size and Call Trends and Average Container Throughput per Call.xlsx (23.82 KB)

Description:

This graph is from the 2024 Transportation Statistics Annual Report.

Source:

Vessel call data and size category from San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, Bay Wide Ocean-Going Vessel International Maritime Organization Tier Forecast 2015–2050, July 2017, p. 3; TEU volume data from the Port of Los Angeles, Annual Container Statistics, available at https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/container-statistics and Port of Long Beach, TEUs Archive: 1995 to Present by Year, available at https://polb.com/business/port-statistics#yearly-teus; data at both ports available as of October 2023.

Previous Editions:

Vessel Size and Call Trends and Average Container Throughput per Call LA and LB 2005-2015

Publications:

Transportation Statistics Annual Report Figure 3-10

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Vessel Size and Call Trends and Average Container Throughput per Call, Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: 2005–2015