Aggregated container volumes handled at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reached 1.87m teu in August, the second highest monthly throughput ever recorded at the main Pacific Southwest (PSW) gateway port just shy of the 1.92m teu peak handled during the peak of the COVID pandemic in May 2021. The current volumes already exceed the 1.67m teu handled in January 2022 when congestion at the San Pedro Bay ports reached a record high of 740,000 teu, but there is still few signs of any serious co