Port of Los Angeles

Port of Los Angeles
Port of Los Angeles in 2008
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Location
Country	United States
Location	Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	33°43′48″N 118°15′45″W / 33.73000°N 118.26250°W / 33.73000; -118.26250[1]
UN/LOCODE	US LAX
Details
Opened	December 9, 1907
Size of harbour	3,200 acres (13 km2)
Land area	4,300 acres (17 km2)
Size	7,500 acres (30 km2)
Draft depth	−53 ft (−16 m)
President	Jaime L. Lee
Vice President	Edward Renwick
Commissioners	Diane L. Middleton Lucia Moreno-Linares Anthony Pirozzi Jr.[2]
Executive Director	Gene Seroka[3]
Statistics
Vessel arrivals	1,867 (CY 2019)
Annual cargo tonnage	178 million metric revenue tons (FY 2019)
Annual container volume	9.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) (CY 2019)
Value of cargo	$276 billion (CY 2019)
Passenger traffic	650,010 passengers (CY 2019)
Annual revenue	$506 million (FY 2019)
Website portoflosangeles.org

The Port of Los Angeles is a seaport managed by the Los Angeles Harbor Department, a unit of the City of Los Angeles. It occupies 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "America's Port", the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown.

The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles (182 km) of on-dock rail. The port's top imports were furniture, automobile parts, apparel, footwear, and electronics. In 2019, the port's top exports were wastepaper, pet and animal feed, scrap metal and soybeans.^[4] In 2020 the port's top three trading partners were China (including Hong Kong), Japan, and Vietnam.^[5] In 2022, the port, together with the adjoining Port of Long Beach, were considered amongst the world's least efficient ports by the World Bank and IHS Markit citing union protectionism and a lack of automation.^[6][7]