LOS ANGELES—The World Bank ranked the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports last in efficiency among container ports worldwide in a report issued last month.
The “Container Port Performance Index 2021” (pdf) measured the total time a ship spent at port and waiting offshore to dock at 370 locations worldwide in 2021. Los Angeles’s port ranked 368 and Long Beach ranked last at 370.
The two most efficient container ports in the report were top-ranked King Abdullah Port in Saudi Arabia and the Port of Salalah in Oman, which was ranked second.
The efficiency of port infrastructure was identified as a key factor to port competitiveness and international trade costs, according to the World Bank Group report….