The largest port in the Americas is giving priority to high-volume customers by “peeling off” their containers for sorting elsewhere.

Los Angeles has teamed up with stevedoring company The Pasha Group, harbour trucking firm Total Transportation Services Inc (TTSI), several marine container terminal operators and a core group of major retailers to create the program.

“The ‘peel off’ program has added a new operational model to the port to clear the current backlog of containers and improve the flow of cargo going forward,” said Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka.

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