Empty Containers Continue Stacking Up At Ports

Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and surrounding neighborhoods continued to struggle with empty shipping container pileups.

Officials at the ports reported some progress clearing containers at the terminals but local police and neighborhoods continued to see trailers dumped into their streets.

Long Beach Police officers have cited unattached trailers loaded with containers parked along city streets over the past several months, according to Bandon Fahey, the department’s public information officer.

These trailers are parked especially along the west side of Long Beach in and around the industrial areas, Fahey said.

“We have noticed an increase of unattached trailers loaded with shipping containers being stored on city streets,” Fahey told The Epoch Times in an email.

“The shipping containers and/or trailers are generally being stored on the street due to lack of space in company facilities and the inability to return them to the shipping terminals.”

Valerie Contreras, former chair of the Wilmington Neighborhood Council—a small community adjacent to the Port of Long Beach—said last month her city has been overrun by shipping containers and trucks.- READ MORE