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'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says

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232 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 10 May 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.01s | source
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snozolli ◴[10 May 25 17:23 UTC] No.43947299[source]▶
I find it odd that recent articles are always about the Port of Seattle. From a quick Google search, it looks like the busiest US ports are Los Angeles, Long Beach, Port of New York, Port of Savannah, then Port of Seattle. As of 2018, the Port of Los Angeles alone was almost 3x busier than the Port of Seattle.

Not that it isn't worth noting, but I'm much more interested in overall volume across all of the nation's ports, and especially the West Coast ports.

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1. kristjansson ◴[10 May 25 17:29 UTC] No.43947352[source]▶
LA is down 32% YoY this week[0].

But also LA and Long Beach are effectively a single port, so per your enumeration … Seattle is the second biggest port on the west coast? Seems like that’d be one to look at when we’re talking about transpacific trade?

[0]: https://volumes.portoptimizer.com/ . NB The predictions for subsequent weeks are based on historical data AFAICT, and haven’t been accurate. The actual are good data though.

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2. snozolli ◴[10 May 25 17:52 UTC] No.43947521[source]▶
But also LA and Long Beach are effectively a single port, so per your enumeration … Seattle is the second biggest port on the west coast?

Long Beach has almost the traffic as Los Angeles, so by your logic Seattle is only 1/6 the volume.

Seems like that’d be one to look at when we’re talking about transpacific trade?

Which one? I would be looking at LA and LB.

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3. kristjansson ◴[10 May 25 20:26 UTC] No.43948694[source]▶
I didn’t say it was a close second.

Again, LA/LB are basically the same port. One would also want to look at the next biggest geographically distinct port, which on the west coast is Seattle