Port of Long Beach

Some West Coast ports shut down after union workers walked off the job. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on June 2, 2023. 

Nearly all container terminals at the LA and Long Beach ports remain closed after union workers did not show up to work for a second straight day.

Independent truckers snarled traffic on freeways in the Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Pedro areas this week to protest AB 5, a bill passed and signed into law years before that they argue is going to kill trucker jobs amid skyrocketing inflation and the supply chain issue. 

Some independent truck drivers spent a second day throwing a wrench into South Bay port operations, gathering at a couple of entrances and blocking big rigs from coming and going.
Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC 4 News at 5

Demolition of the old 410-foot-long Gerald Desmond Bridge has begun.

Two people were injured after a steel frame fell at a construction site at the Port of Long Beach. As seen on air on May 6, 2022.

Three construction workers were injured, one seriously, when a steel frame scaffold partially collapsed at the Port of Long Beach Friday.

A steel-frame scaffold partially collapsed at the Port of Long Beach, seriously injuring one person.