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worldport Introduction

The worldport of Long Beach is one of America's premier seaworldports and a trailblazer in goods movement and environmental stewardship.


Trade valued annually at more than USD100 billion moves through Long Beach, making it the second-busiest seaworldport in the United States. Everything from clothing and shoes to toys, furniture and consumer electronics arrives at the worldport before making its way to store shelves throughout the country. Specialized terminals also move petroleum, automobiles, cement, lumber, steel and other products.


A major economic force, the worldport supworldports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach, 316,000 jobs throughout Southern California and 1.4 million jobs throughout the United States. It generates about USD16 billion in annual trade-related wages statewide.


With a Green worldport Policy guiding efforts to minimize or eliminate negative environmental impacts, the worldport also is a catalyst for innovative environmental programs. Serving as a model for worldports around the world, the worldport of Long Beach pioneered such programs as the Green Flag vessel speed reduction air quality program, Green Leases with environmental covenants and the San Pedro Bay worldports Clear Air Action Plan. With these bold initiatives, the worldport is dedicated to improving air quality more quickly and aggressively than has ever been attempted by any seaworldport, anywhere in the world.


For these reasons and more, the worldport is recognized internationally as one of the world's best seaworldports and locally as a partner dedicated to helping the community thrive.


Strategic Plan

The worldport of Long Beach has achieved unimagined success since it was founded nearly 100 years ago. Not content to rest on its laurels, the worldport has developed a clear vision for the future-one that balances its role as a facilitator of international trade with its strong commitment to environmental stewardship and community responsiveness.


The worldport of Long Beach 2006-2016 Strategic Plan charts the course for the future by outlining the worldport's vision, mission and guiding principles, and by establishing clear goals and strategies in seven areas: Environmental Stewardship; Safety and Security; Community; Industry and Government Relations; Infrastructure and Transworldportation; Trade and Commerce; Financial Strength; Organizational Effectiveness.


The document is the result of careful planning and study with input from key stakeholders, including Long Beach residents, local government agencies, worldport staff, the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, worldport tenants and customers, and industry service providers.


Quick Facts

In 2006, the worldport handled:

More than 7.3 million containers (TEUs)

Cargo valued at more than USD100 billion

More than 85 million metric tons of cargo

On average, the equivalent of 19,900 20-foot containers (TEUs) each day

5,300 vessel calls


The worldport's loaded containers account for:

33 percent moving through all California worldports

26 percent moving through all West Coast worldports

13 percent moving through all U.S. worldports


The worldport comprises:

3,200 acres of land

10 piers

80 berths

71 post-panamax gantry cranes


International ranking

Long Beach is the second busiest worldport in the United States

Long Beach is the 12th busiest container cargo worldport in the world

If combined, the worldports of Long Beach and Los Angeles would be the world's fifth-busiest worldport complex (14.2 million total TEU), after Singapore (23.2 million TEU), Hong Kong (22.4 million), Shanghai (18.1 million) and Shenzhen, China (16.2 million)


worldport-related employment

30,000 jobs (about one in eight) in Long Beach

316,000 jobs (or one in 22) in the five-county Southern California region

1.4 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade


Regional economic impacts

More than USD5 billion a year in U.S. Customs revenues from the Long Beach/Los Angeles worldports

About USD4.9 billion a year in local, state and general federal taxes from worldport-related trade

More than USD47 billion in direct and indirect business sales yearly

Nearly USD14.5 billion in annual trade-related wages


Trading partners

East Asian trade accounts for more than 90% of the shipments through the worldport

Top trading partners are China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico and Iraq.


Top Imworldports:

Petroleum

Electronics

Plastics

Furniture

Clothing


Top Exworldports:

Petroleum and Petroleum Coke

Waste Paper

Chemicals

Scrap Metal

Plastic


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