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February Cargo Volume Stays Strong at Port of Los Angeles

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February Cargo Volume Stays Strong at Port of Los Angeles

 

LOS ANGELES — After a record start to 2025, Port of Los Angeles cargo volume remained strong into February. The port processed 801,398 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last month, which was 2.5% more than last year and marked the port’s second-busiest February on record.

“For 17 of the last 19 months, the Port of Los Angeles has experienced year-over-year cargo growth, all without ship delays or back-ups on our docks,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said at a Port of Los Angeles media briefing. “That’s a testament to the outstanding work of the women and men of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, our terminal operators, truckers, railroads and other stakeholders.

“Many retailers and manufacturers have been importing their products through Los Angeles earlier than usual as a hedge against tariffs,” Seroka added. “Given the substantial inventory already here, and the uncertainty of tariffs, it’s possible we could see a 10% volume decline in the second half of the year. Here in Los Angeles, we will continue to look for new opportunities to bring more business through our gateway.”

Dr. Nela Richardson, ADP Chief Economist, joined Seroka at the media event. Richardson discussed the impact of tariffs on the economy, particularly from the labor market perspective.

 

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February 2025 loaded imports came in at 413,236 TEUs, 1% higher compared to the previous year. Loaded exports came in at 109,156 TEUs, an 18% drop from 2024. The Port processed 279,006 empty containers, 16% more than last year.

Two months into 2025, the Port of Los Angles has handled 1,725,643 TEUs, 5.4% more than 2024.

Murder Investigation– Atlantic Ave. LB

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Murder Investigation– Atlantic Ave. LB

 

 

Homicide detectives are investigating the murder of a male adult victim that occurred on March 17, on Atlantic Avenue.

About 3:49 a.m., officers responded to the 5400 block of Atlantic Ave. regarding an assault with a deadly weapon call. Upon arrival, officers contacted a male adult victim who was shot in the upper body. Officers rendered medical aid until being relieved by Long Beach Fire Department personnel, who transported the victim to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Homicide detectives responded to the scene. At this time, the motive for the shooting and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation. Detectives are working to determine the identity of any suspect(s) involved.

The identity of the victim is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin by the Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to contact Homicide Detectives Eric Thai or Chasen Contreras at 562-570-7244, or anonymously at 800-222-8477, www.lacrimestoppers.org.

LASD Asking for Public’s Help Locating At-Risk Missing Person, Pedro Hernandez Jr., Torrance

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LASD Asking for Public’s Help Locating At-Risk Missing Person, Pedro Hernandez Jr., Torrance

 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public’s help locating at-risk missing person, Pedro Hernandez Jr who is a resident of Los Angeles County. He is a 23-years-old male Hispanic who was last seen on the 1000 block of West Carson Street, in the city of Torrance at 8:30 p.m. on March 18.

Mr. Hernandez is 5’11”, 170lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing gray pants. Mr. Hernandez is diagnosed with schizophrenia and there is concern for his well-being.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Missing Persons Unit at 323- 890-5500 or anonymously at 800 222-8477, http://lacrimestoppers.org

California and Sonora Forge Partnership to Boost Clean Energy and Air Quality

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California and Sonora Forge Partnership to Boost Clean Energy and Air Quality

 

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom met with a delegation from the Mexican state of Sonora March 17 to enter into a new subnational partnership – fostering diplomacy while building on a commitment to achieving California’s nation-leading clean air and clean energy goals.

California and Sonora participated in a bilateral meeting, followed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding or MOU.

The MOU outlines four years of collaboration between California and Sonora to advance their leadership through increasing the development of clean energy, building supply chain resilience, and expanding regional access to renewables, among other items. Text of the MOU is available here.

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“Sonora and California share a border and challenges. Today we establish an agreement with this state, a leader in economic growth and actions against climate change, to join forces and ensure that families live in a prosperous region, with a better environment and technological development,” said the Governor of Sonora Alfonso Durazo Montaño. “Sonora contributes an entire desert and the talent of its people to make a better region possible.”

Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments

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Governor Newsom Announces Judicial Appointments

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom March 17 announced his appointment of 10 Superior Court Judges: three of which are in Los Angeles County;

William Shin, of Los Angeles County, has been appointed to serve as a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Shin has served as a deputy attorney general at the California attorney general’s Office since 2005 and as a staff judge advocate and deputy staff judge advocate at the California Air National Guard since 2019. Shin was an assistant staff judge advocate at the United States Air Force Reserve from 2011 to 2019. He was a deputy district attorney at the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office from 2004 to 2005 and an associate at Franscell Strickland Roberts & Lawrence from 2001 to 2004. Shin received a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School. He fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Julie Fox Blackshaw. Shin is a Democrat.

Kimberly Dotson, of Los Angeles County, has been appointed to serve as a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Dotson has served as a commissioner at the Los Angeles Superior Court since 2018. She was a deputy public defender at the Los Angeles County public defender’s office from 2002 to 2018. Dotson received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Lee R. Bogdanoff. Dotson is a Democrat.

Faye Chen Barnouw, of Los Angeles County, has been appointed to serve as a judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Barnouw has served as an assistant regional director at the Federal Trade Commission since 2019, and was an attorney there from 2001 to 2019. She was a trial attorney with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1997 to 2001, and an associate at Parker Milliken Clark O’Hara & Samuelian from 1994 to 1997. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1993 to 1994. Barnouw received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Deborah L. Sanchez. Barnouw is a Democrat.

California and Shanghai Leaders Unite to Drive Green Shipping Corridor Forward

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California and Shanghai Leaders Unite to Drive Green Shipping Corridor Forward

 

LOS ANGELES —Transportation and environmental policy leaders and scholars from California state agencies and the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Shanghai

gathered March 17, hosted by the Port of Long Beach, to discuss their efforts to decarbonize the maritime industry via development of a Green Shipping Corridor between California and Shanghai.

This event highlighted the role of infrastructure development and the policies and regulations needed to advance international green shipping corridors.

Through the years, California and China have engaged in open dialogue on climate cooperation. In 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to China where he committed to collaboration to advance shared interests related to climate action, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and short-lived climate pollutants and the acceleration and deployment of clean energy. During the visit, five cooperative agreements were signed. One Memorandum of Understanding between California and Shanghai aims to advance clean, low-carbon transportation including the development of clean ports and green shipping. This work complements the existing partnership between the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Shanghai to decarbonize one of the world’s busiest container shipping routes.

The forum was an opportunity to highlight that the Port of Long Beach, together with the Port of Los Angeles, C40 Cities and the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission or SMTC, jointly published, in October 2024, their first ever Green Shipping Corridor Partnership Annual Progress Report, which outlines significant progress made toward decarbonizing maritime vessels. The Port of Long Beach also recently published a white paper on the use of clean marine fuels in shipping.

Green Shipping Corridors provide a forum for partnership and cooperation where all participating parties come together with an aim to achieve goals and advance toward use of low- and zero-carbon fuels and technologies.

One of these corridors is the Los Angeles – Long Beach – Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor. Goals in this specific green corridor include deploying reduced or zero lifecycle carbon emission capable ships and facilitating investment in clean marine fueling infrastructure at the partner ports.

This forum brought together leadership to weigh in on these topics, to dive deeper into the necessary components of green shipping corridors and explore opportunities for greater collaboration in this emerging space.

In 2024, California State leadership traveled to Shanghai to see port operations in real time and witness firsthand innovation being employed. Later that same year, the United States Department of Energy published a Maritime Decarbonization Action Plan, which identified pathways to achieve a zero-emissions maritime sector by 2050.

“California is a global leader in climate action and is committed to the health and prosperity of both people and planet,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph. “As a champion for clean air, the California Air Resources Board remains dedicated to working together to identify opportunities for deeper decarbonization in the green shipping space.”

CCCI, a University of California-wide initiative housed jointly at UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources and School of Law, supported much of the planning for the forum. Through research, training and dialogue, CCCI aims to inform policymakers, foster cooperation and partnership, and drive climate solutions at all levels.

“In this interconnected world, where we share oceans, shipping corridors, trade and climate impacts, it’s increasingly critical for us to also share ideas and solutions,” said CCCI Executive Director Fan Dai. “Cutting climate pollution from shipping requires deep collaboration, and that’s what this forum is all about.”

San Pedro Briefs: Beach Mammal Alert & CD15’s Wilmington PBID Update

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San Pedro Briefs: Beach Mammal Alert & CD15’s Wilmington PBID Update

Beach Safety Public Alert

A toxic algae bloom is affecting LA County beaches, causing sea lions to become sick with domoic acid toxicosis. For your safety and your pets’ safety on the beach, stay away from stranded marine mammals and call 1-800-399-4253 (WHALE) if you see a sea lion showing symptoms or need assistance (extended head backward, side to side movement, foaming at the mouth, seizure activity). The Marine Mammal Care Center is working to rescue and treat affected animals, but with cases tripling in a week and more expected, their hospital is nearing capacity.

You can help support their efforts at marinemammalcare.org/donate.

CD15 Policy Update

On March 14, the city council approved a motion introduced by Councilmember Tim McOsker in collaboration with the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and local stakeholders. The approval of this motion secures $130K in funding for a consultant to explore the creation of a property-based business improvement district or PBID on Avalon Blvd. in Wilmington. This project would enable local property owners, the city, and the Port of Los Angeles to assemble a stream of funds toward improvements and business development programs on Avalon Blvd., including for supplemental public safety, business attraction, and infrastructure.

Avalon Blvd. was once the center of a thriving commercial district in the Harbor, and these additional PBID amenities would be critical to promote new economic activity.

McOsker said that given the recent investments along the Wilmington Waterfront through the public access infrastructure plan or PAIP, it would be ideal to connect Avalon Blvd. to this growth, ensure the success of the waterfront redevelopment, and promote jobs and local business in the the Harbor Area.

San Pedro Bay Ports to Give Quarterly Clean Air Action Plan Update on April 2

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San Pedro Bay Ports to Give Quarterly Clean Air Action Plan Update on April 2

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will give a progress update on the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan or CAAP April 2. The meeting will include information on the ports’ 2024 air quality achievements and 2025 priorities, as well as a status update on the truck and cargo handling equipment feasibility assessments.

The meeting will be held at Banning’s Landing community center. Proceedings will be livestreamed here, https://tinyurl.com/clean-Air-Action-Plan-update passcode: 444604. Participation is in-person only.

Minutes and presentations of prior meetings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/About-the-Clean-Air-plan

Limited free parking is available at the Wilmington Waterfront Promenade parking lot next to Banning’s Landing Community Center.

Updated in 2017, the CAAP is a comprehensive strategy for accelerating progress toward a zero-emissions future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. The Clean Air Action Plan was originally approved in 2006.

The ports will take public comments in-person at the advisory meeting to receive input on CAAP implementation. The agenda will be posted on the CAAP website prior to the meeting.

Time: 10 a.m., April 2

Details: For more information, visit cleanairactionplan.org.

Venue: Banning’s Landing community center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington

“Tragedy Gift Shop” more fable than play

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“Tragedy Gift Shop” more fable than play

Commonplace gun violence. Exploitation. Sensationalism. Amoral corporate greed. This is today’s America, and it’s enough to make you want to scream. If you’re a playwright, your scream may make it to the stage. Hence Tragedy Gift Shop, Ryan McClary’s second world premiere at the Garage Theatre in four seasons.

Boon’s Emporium, a one-stop shop for all the tragedy-related curios your broken little heart desires (ghost bikes, commemorative pins, hand-sized American flags), is a going concern, opening a new location (no. 9) in Townsville after a school shooting there left 15 dead. It’s a homecoming for Boon’s proprietor Chris Udall (Rory Cowan), a chance to re-root himself even as the Boon’s brand continues to expand. For Lucy (Jade Dodgen), a Townsville High student who narrowly escaped being among the dead, a job at Boon’s feels like just the ticket to fashion healing from her awful experience. But the wraith of the boy who saved her life (Sage Forsythe) helps her come to question Boon’s mission and the part she’s playing.

Aside from its straightforward cynicism about capitalism, Tragedy Gift Shop never quite coheres, with characters bouncing between minimal interactions and tell-don’t-show monologs. As kindly English teacher Ms. Sorensen, Jade Yancosky gives us a nice one at the beginning of Act Two, but we only know she cares because she says so, not because we ever get to see it. Plotwise, nothing much happens beyond the gradual revelation that the “dark masters” behind Boon’s (a pharmaceutical conglomerate, it turns out) prioritize profit over healing — not much of a plot point, considering that we find Boon’s obviously suspect from the get-go.

With such a dearth of dramatic elements, it seems McClary got stuck in a no-man’s land between overgrown fable and underfed play. The characters have no flesh on their bones. Lucy is in pain and trying to figure out how to move forward — but personality traits? Not so much. And she’s the protagonist.

There are also some curious choices. For example, after Udall calls himself a carpetbagger in Act One, considering that by Act Two he’s gone out of his way to tell us he’s set to stay in Townsville forever, even if you don’t know a carpet bag from a bindle you should puzzle over his now being outfitted in hobo finery. And though it’s not important that sometimes actors look at cell phones or books but at others it’s just their empty hands, it’s hard not to notice.

Rob Young’s set design is good fun, though less for the Boon’s Emporium trimmings (perfectly nice) than the audience seating (four sections to choose from on three sides) and an ingress that snakes you away from the usual Garage entry point and through a Townsville High hallway. It’s got nothing to do with the play’s action — it’s just good Garage Theatre fun.

I count myself something of a Ryan McClary fan. Entropy General remains one of my most memorable nights of theatre (two nights, actually: I went back for seconds) despite the fact that it took place 14 years ago; and 2022’s The Private Lives of Imaginary Friends was an effective, affecting view from inside a mind finding it difficult to navigate the world without. But although Tragedy Gift Shop has something to say, McClary has figured out the best way to say it. But good that the Garage is giving him a chance to use his voice. I hope they’ll keep doing so.

Tragedy Gift Shop at the Garage Theatre
Times: Thursday–Saturday 8:00 p.m.
The show runs through April 5.
Cost: $23–$28 (Thursdays 2-for-1); closing night w/afterparty: $40
Details: thegaragetheatre.org
Venue: The Garage Theatre, 251 E. 7th St., Long Beach

COMMUNITY ALERT: Rep. Barragán to Host Community Conversation on Trump Impacts

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COMMUNITY ALERT: Rep. Barragán to Host Community Conversation on Trump Impacts

 

SAN PEDRO – Congresswoman Nanette Barragán (CA-44) will host a community conversation for constituents to hear what’s happening in Washington and why the Trump Administration’s policies and cuts to government services are harmful.

In attendance with Rep. Nanette Barragán (CA-44), will be LAUSD School Board Member Tanya Ortiz-Franklin, community health pediatrician Dr. Ilan Shapiro, neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County CEO Lori Gay and an additional guest impacted by Trump and DOGE Actions.

Time: 6:30 p.m., March 18

Venue: Dalmatian-American Club, 1639 S. Palos Verdes St., San Pedro

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