Data · updated monthly
Port of LA and Long Beach container volumes
Monthly TEU throughput for the San Pedro Bay ports, the demand signal that fills Inland Empire warehouses. Updated within days of each port's monthly release.
Container volume, San Pedro Bay
Monthly TEUs, both ports · Jul 2024 – Jul 2026
Monthly combined TEUs
July 2026 (latest, preliminary)
Read the July number carefully
Long Beach called it the second-busiest July on record, and it still printed down 1.7% year over year. Volume was pulled forward ahead of the new Section 301 duties that took effect July 24. Expect August and September to give some of it back.
West vs. East
July 2026| Metric | IE West | IE East |
|---|---|---|
| Base inventory | 374.9M SF | 326.1M SF |
| Availability | 12.65% | 13.35% |
| Vacancy | 5.25% | 6.71% |
| Net absorption YTD | +2,157,860 | −1,041,189 |
| Leasing activity YTD | 29.9M SF | 30.1M SF |
| Transactions | 355 | 232 |
| Under construction | 5.29M SF | 3.56M SF |
| Avg NNN, 100K+ (Q2) | $1.038 | $0.889 |
The spread is the story
East is absorbing negative on nearly the same leasing volume as West across 123 fewer deals — bigger boxes, more churn, weaker retention. West holds the pricing power at a 17% rate premium.
How to read these numbers
For occupancy planning- Loaded imports are the series that matters. Empties are roughly 37% of the combined count and are repositioning moves, not demand. A month where total TEUs rise on empties tells you nothing about warehouse absorption.
- Allow a lag. Containers discharged at the port take weeks to convert into pallet positions in Fontana, Redlands or Perris. Port strength shows up in leasing a quarter later, not the same month.
- Watch for pull-forward. When a tariff deadline is announced, importers accelerate. The spike is borrowed from the following months and reverses.
- Both ports move together but not identically. Long Beach and Los Angeles compete for the same services; a swing at one is often a share shift, not a demand change. Read the combined number first.