Overview
- The port handled 406,421 TEUs of imports in November, down 11.5% year over year, and exports fell 8.4% to 113,706 TEUs, marking an eleventh consecutive monthly export drop.
- Port leaders attributed the pullback to earlier front-loading to avoid Trump administration tariffs on a range of consumer and industrial goods.
- Imports to all U.S. ports declined 7.8% in November, which Descartes linked to softer demand for Chinese goods and one fewer day in the Thanksgiving month.
- Despite the volatility, Executive Director Gene Seroka still projects total 2025 throughput above 10 million TEUs, roughly matching last year for the port’s third-highest annual volume.
- A forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on tariffs imposed under emergency powers could reshape policy tools, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has said the administration would pivot to other statutes if needed.