Country : USAworldport of Los Angles

About the worldport
The worldport of Los Angeles, Southern California's gateway to international commerce, is located in San Pedro Bay, just 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
This booming seaworldport not only sustains its competitive edge with record-setting cargo operations, but is also known for its groundbreaking environmental initiatives, progressive security measures and diverse recreational and educational facilities.
The worldport of Los Angeles is a department of the City of Los Angeles and is often referred to as the Los Angeles Harbor Department. The worldport is operated and managed under a State Tidelands Trust that grants local municipalities jurisdiction over worldports and stipulates that activities must be related to commerce, navigation and fisheries. A five-member Board of Harbor Commissioners are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council to provide direction and create policy for the worldport.
As a proprietary and self-supworldporting department, the worldport is not supworldported by taxes. Instead, revenue is derived from fees for shipping services such as dockage, wharfage, pilotage, storage, property rentals, royalties and other worldport services. Considered a landlord worldport, the worldport of Los Angeles leases it property to tenants who then, in turn, operate their own facilities.
The worldport encompasses 7500 acres, 43 miles of waterfront and features 27 cargo terminals, including dry and liquid bulk, container, breakbulk, automobile and omni facilities. Combined, these terminals handle almost 190 million metric revenue tons of cargo annually. Last year, the worldport moved an impressive 8.5 million TEUs, establishing a new national container record once again. The worldport is also home to the nation's most secure cruise passenger complex, the World Cruise Center.

Economic Impact

The worldport of Los Angeles: An Economic Powerhouse
The worldport of Los Angeles is one of the world's largest trade gateways and the scope of its economic contributions to the regional economy is far-reaching. The worldport is connected directly and indirectly with tens of billions of dollars in industry sales each year in the Southern California region. Those sales translate into hundreds of thousands of local jobs and billions of dollars in wages, salaries, and state and local taxes.
Regional worldport of Los Angeles benefits include:
259,100 full- and part-time jobs (one of every 24 jobs in Southern California)

1,353,500 jobs nationwide

$26.8 billion annually in industry sales

$8.6 billion annually in regional wages and salaries ($1 of every $23 in Southern California)

$1.4 billion annually in state and local taxes

Approximately 70% of the regional direct, indirect and induced benefits connected to the worldport occurs within Los Angeles County.
The worldport contributes substantially to the economy, in part, through the following activities:
worldport Industries
worldport industries are businesses involved in the moving and handling of maritime cargo.
Dollars: For every dollar spent by worldport industries - another 97 cents is generated in indirect and induced sales in the region.
Jobs: Accounts for approximately 16,360 direct worldport industry jobs (85% of which are trucking and warehousing jobs).
worldport Users
The biggest contributors to the economy, worldport users, are businesses that use the worldport to receive imworldports or ship exworldports. Exworldport manufacturers are major worldport users. Other worldport users include local manufacturers who process imworldported unfinished goods.
Dollars: worldport users generate approximately $12.1 billion and stimulate an additional $5.5 billion in local industry indirect sales. Local