The June 15 AS Daily news report Port of Long Beach container volumes see slight bump in May conflated the fiscal year-to-date totals in Long Beach with the calendar year totals.
The number of containers handled at the Port of Long Beach through the first five months of 2016 is 2.68 million. Yesterday’s newswire put the figure at 4.5 million, but that represents the eight-month start to the fiscal year beginning in October.