The Port of Long Beach was founded 110 years ago today – June 24, 1911. According to the port’s website, it was “a wild dream scratched out of 800 acres of mudflats at the mouth of the Los Angeles River.”
Since then, the port has grown significantly; it is the second-busiest container port in the United States, trailing only the Port of Los Angeles (recently profiled here in FreightWaves Classics), which it adjoins in San Pedro Bay.
Today, the Port of Long Beach encompasses more than 7,600 acres...