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Los Angeles / Long Beach (San Pedro Bay)
Los Angeles, United States33.74°N 118.26°W
computed criticality28/100
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≈19.9M TEU, top US gateway (2024)
2024Fault line
The San Pedro Bay complex handles nearly half of all US container imports, mostly from Asia. The 2021 backlog, with dozens of ships at anchor, showed how a single point on the West Coast can jam the whole of American distribution. Little port redundancy at that scale.
Actors
Port of Los Angeles
Port of Long Beach
ILWU dockworkers
MSC, Maersk terminals
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