Commercial Ports, Truckers Feeling Pinch From Fewer Shipping Containers

Officials at California’s two busiest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach remain optimistic with ongoing tariff talks between the U.S. and China.

A semitruck hauling an empty shipping container arrives at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on June 5, 2025. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Six truck mechanics sat around a table at Silva Truck & Auto Electric repair shop in Long Beach, California, enjoying their midday break while waiting for work orders that might never arrive.

Araseli Soto, an office worker at the company, said she had not seen such a slow period in business before.