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Gabriel Cedeno
SCLT- 3340
Professor: Bobby Butler
December 1, 2020
Port of Los Angeles
The Port of Los Angeles (POLA) in the United States is the main multi-company Port and
is located in San Pedro Bay, 25 miles south from Los Angeles city center. This prosperous Port
retains its potent edge and its robust environmental programs, active conservation efforts, the
number of entertainment and training facilities, and La Coastline's growth. The Port of Los
Angeles occupies an area of about 7500 hectares and an area of 43 miles. It highlights 27 ports for
passenger transport and loading, including trucks, dealers, powered and fluid weights,
multipurpose facilities, and storage, handling trillions of freight dollars annually. The Port of Los
Angeles focuses on tracking properties and contained development and transactions both on earth
and finance. A $2.6 billion 10-year Framework Venture initiative has been initiated in the Port of
Los Angeles to continue raising the threshold to create expertise. The Port focuses on office
modernization and enhancement of the data stream for stakeholders that use creativity
POLA is one of the world's biggest and most busy freight centers. They are a creative
strategy and a thriving market hub for their clients and freight owners. POLA has been one of the
leading interconnect systems worldwide for several business sectors, such as agriculture, car
manufacturing, machinery, and raw materials (Martinez, 6). 40% of all containerized goods are
shipped via US POLA, widely known as the American Port," before arrival in their final
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destination. In the discourse on the growth of local and national economies and the effect on
foreign trade, the value of this trading Hub cannot be underestimated (Port LA Handbook, 8).
Since its foundation in 1907, POLA has become an important commercial and distribution
center in the United States. The POLA had a year before the crisis in 2008, running at over 8.5
million TEUs (22 feet) (Martinez, 2). As the problem came, businesses began ordering fewer and
began to plunge into their production stocks. POLA saw a 25% decline in companies (Arikawa)
between 2007 and 2009. However, once stores became scarce, businesses immediately requested
further shipments, resulting in substantial POLA revenues. Today it handles 7.9 million TEUs,
worth over 286 billion USD, and is the country's largest container terminal. Urban growth is perfect
for industries both domestically and internationally dealing with products.
The customers are a profitable enterprise. Since Los Angeles is so big, sending their goods
the ultimate place for companies is because they would have a colossal exchange (Martinez, 3).
The POLA is 35 miles far from south of Los Angeles city center, America's leading logistics center
(LAEDC, 40). This is one reason why Port attracts so much traffic every day. About ten million
residents in Los Angeles County (US Census) were enrolled in 2013. This extensive stretch of the
city is ideal for companies that trade commodities worldwide and worldwide. The customers are a
profitable enterprise. Given its vast scale, Los Angeles makes it the ultimate location for
corporations to submit their goods, and vast quantities of customers are met in short order. Los
Angeles developed itself successfully around the industry that the Port puts together in the last
century. San Pedro Harbor, 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, is the largest international
Port. The national economy depends heavily on South Bay ports, including Long Beach Port
(POLB). It's expected that the United States economy would grow by 2.5% in 2014 and nearly 3%
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in 2015 (LAEDC 13). These figures are based on market inflation observations by the Bureau of
Economic Research and a declining percentage of unemployment rates in non-farm workers.
In the United States, the Long Beach ports and Los Angeles have produced more than 1.1
million workers and 3.3 million jobs (Martinez, 3). In Southern California alone, over 896,000
people work by POLA and POLB, both directly and indirectly (Martinez, 3). In addition to
providing jobs for people, ports have created a business value. In 2012, California ports accounted
for more than $63 billion and over $260 billion in the US. This specifically meant that California
got only $6 trillion in fiscal profits and the national government nearly $23 trillion. Obviously, in
the local and national economies over the last decade, Southern California ports have had an
enormous role. It is essential to recognize its facilities and trading networks from sea to land to
understand how ports have stayed at the forefront of their development and productivity.
One of the critical reasons why POLA remains so essential to product movements in the
United States and worldwide is its systematic, organized touch shipping system. Any day
approximately 100 trains arrive and depart the POLA (Arikawa). By train, 14 major distribution
centers in the United States will directly access this Port. For instance, remote towns like Chicago
and Dallas can be transported from and collected from Port Los Angeles directly without wasting
time and fuel by train. The solution for these commercial centers is simple since the Port of Los
Angeles wants to deal with an individual. These trains have over 100 units on a single journey,
making both the Port and companies remarkably productive exchanges of goods. The Alameda
Corridor is one of the earliest examples of synchronized train services on the local level.
This 20-mile express railway links both the South Bay ports and the city center of Los
Angeles (ACTA). The main link between this line is Alameda Lane. From 1981 it was the principal
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means of transport to the heart of downtown Los Angeles (ACTA) for goods directly from the
seaport. The corridor is 12,557 TEU per day from January 2014. It's just under 50 trains running
on and off the passage, supplying the desired commodities all over Southern California (Jones,
36).
Furthermore, trains have increased by 8.2 percent every year since November, leading to
remarkable development figures since 2007 (Jones, 37). Companies in Southern California are
barely affected by the season. Shipments can be packed and processed almost 365 days a year,
explaining why corporations prefer the Port (Arikawa) to export their items. Usually, full ports
like POLA also raise the status of the alliance.
Similarly, like aviation, POLA has entered into significant partnerships with shipping
companies and outstanding market movers advantageous to its competitors. According to Martinez
(6), shoes, electrical equipment, clothing, car parts and furniture were the top five imports for
POLA in 2013. These are large command parts which have been the most important imports of
POLA over the past decade.
Goods shipping by boat is the oldest method of international commerce. This is because
the prices have been saved concerning technological advances over several thousands of years.
Today businesses practically send and receive loads of goods using the JIT, as mentioned earlier
(Arikawa). For instance, a car company in Japan can mount over 2 500 small- to medium-sized
cars on a single container boat (Meeks). Sending these cars via aircraft would cost much more
money and electricity. The vehicles' necessary weight and an aircraft's scale would not allow 2,500
cars to be fitted and delivered. Shell was the first mega-ship in the world in December 2013. A
ship of this size could travel 18,000 TEUs in one ship (vessel) with a length of 1601 feet and a
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width of 243 feet. The typical container ship can only be shipped by 7,000 TEUs (vessel). Installers
and environmentalists collaborate to find areas in which cost can be minimized and build
productive shipping resources by sea, away from looking for alternative modes of transport. The
same principle applies when goods are loaded onto the docks. The same is true. The rail system
from POLA provides access to over 14 different freight hubs. The railway network can be reached
quickly and affordably in St Louis, Dallas, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, San Antonio, Houston,
Memphis, Atlanta, and Chicago (Martinez, 8). There would be many other factors in vehicles'
travel to these sites, such as logistics, petrol, and human expense.
In the past century, the Los Angeles Port System has been a national port of entry to and
from US business. The Port is undertaking capital investments on the order of $1 million daily,
making the broader Los Angeles region's transportation and logistics facilities open to customers
from superior freight ports and rail networks. Pola must also look to form competitive partnerships
in developing markets in advance of other ports (Port of LA Handbook). As described above, the
POLA is ideally placed to enter Pacific Rim countries. That being said, the ideal places to establish
relations would be developing economies such as India or Indonesia (Arikawa). The third-largest
economy in Asia, India, increased 4.4% over the preceding quarter (World Bank) by 4.8% between
July and September 2013. Some experts argue that Africa is another emerging market. If Africa
receives and manages its critical business needs, the African market can be an ideal business outlet
for its Africa POLA industry. The only challenge, though, is to cut the red tape between the
American and African governments.
In conclusion, the Port of Los Angeles has a significant effect on the local and global GDP
economies. The regular stimulation of the Port by the number of sectors represents a combined
exchange of more than $700 million. Southern California (LA Port website) has tens of billions of
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dollars of turnover annually and indirectly associated with the industry. These products' revenues
are actively adding millions of dollars in income, incomes, and public taxes. The economic
viewpoint of California is near the national forecast, as the percentage is predicted to increase.
From 2013 to 2014, the unemployment rate will decrease by a full percent, and personal income
is expected to double.
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Works Cited
Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA). "Connecting the Ports to the Nation –
History." 2017. Retrieved from http://www.acta.org/about/history.asp
Arikawa, Norman. Assistant Director of Trade Development, Trade Development Division, Port
of Los Angeles. San Pedro, CA. Interview on March 24, 2013.
Beech, Hannah"China's Smog is So Bad They're Calling It a 'Nuclear Winter.'" Time Magazine,
2018. Retrieved from http://time.com/9802/beijing-air-pollutionnuclear-winter/
Meeks, Karen Robes."Cargo flows up at Port of Long Beach, down at Port of Los Angeles."
Press-Telegram. 2019. Retrieved from
http://www.presstelegram.com/business/20131115/cargo-flow-up-at-port-of-longbeachdown-at-port-of-los-angeles
Port of Los Angeles, "Strategic Plan, 2012-2017", 2017. Retrieved from
http://www.portoflosangeles.org/pdf/strategic_plan_2017_lowres.pdf
Wilkman, Jon. "History of the Port of LA." Video. Retrieved from the LMU Business Source
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