{"id":11415,"date":"2020-06-11T01:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-la-cargo-volume-down-30-in-may\/11415\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T01:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:33:36","slug":"port-of-la-cargo-volume-down-30-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-la-cargo-volume-down-30-in-may\/11415\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of LA Cargo Volume Down 30% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.maritimeprofessional.com\/images\/maritime\/w200\/trekandphoto-adobe-stock-113692.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Los Angeles&#8217; May cargo volume fell 30% from last year due to coronavirus-related business shutdowns and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, Executive Director Gene Seroka said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Port of Los Angeles is the No. 1 U.S. gateway for trade with China. Last month, the nation&#8217;s busiest port registered its lowest May volume since the &#8220;Great Recession&#8221; of 2009, Seroka said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Seroka declined to issue a forecast for the peak holiday shipping season, citing uncertainty around the coronavirus pandemic and consumer demand.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein; Editing by Bernadette Baum)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Los Angeles&#8217; May cargo volume fell 30% from last year due to coronavirus-related business shutdowns and the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, Executive Director Gene Seroka said on Wednesday. The Port of Los Angeles is the No. 1 U.S. gateway for trade with China. Last month, the nation&#8217;s busiest port registered its lowest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[51,953,1289],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-cargo","tag-port","tag-volume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}