# Container ship has an oopsy in Long Beach

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**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/container-ship-has-an-oopsy-in-long-beach/1022895 "2025-09-09T18:13:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/container-ship-has-an-oopsy-in-long-beach/1022895/61 "2025-09-13T23:15:06Z")

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Legally and administratively there are two unrelated ports: **[Port of Los Angeles - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Los_Angeles)** and **[Port of Long Beach - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Long_Beach)**. But geographically they’re adjacent and share a common outer harbor. So they’re sort of functionally all one place commonly called “Port of Los Angeles / Long Beach”.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/container-ship-has-an-oopsy-in-long-beach/1022895/62 "2025-09-14T01:55:49Z")

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I was at a port on Thurs night/Fri morning. Even the stacks on the ground, away from the boat are massive. Row upon row of 'em 5 high x 9 wide x x deep, & every time the gantry crane started to move again there was an annoying beep-beep…& there wasn’t even a ship at the dock at 2am.

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