LOS ANGELES—Workers at the busiest U.S. seaport are plucking containers of toys off ships and out of massive stacks of cargo swamping docks at the Southern California trade gateway to get holiday gifts under trees in time for Christmas.
“We’ve never had this much cargo,” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said on Dec. 15, when the port announced that imports spiked 25 percent during the month of November.
