Port of Long Beach, Maritime container port in Long Beach, United States.

The Port of Long Beach is a container terminal in Long Beach, California, stretching along the coast. The facility includes berths for cargo ships, storage areas, and crane zones connected by roads and rail tracks.

The Port of Long Beach was founded on 24 June 1911 on 800 acres of mudflats at the mouth of the Los Angeles River, and a Board of Harbor Commissioners was formed in 1917. Voters approved a $5 million bond in 1924, and the old Municipal Pier was rebuilt as the Municipal Wharf in 1925; Pier A opened in 1930. Oil discovered at Signal Hill in 1921 and in the Wilmington Oil Field in 1932 funded expansion, and the first offshore well in the harbor came online in 1937.

The port's trade links run mainly to Asia: China, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam, plus Australia in Oceania. South Korea's Hanjin Shipping opened a 57-acre container terminal on Pier C in 1991, and COSCO, which had made Long Beach its first US port of call around 1980, secured business here in 1997. The port sent officials to the People's Republic of China for the first time in 1979.

The port lies less than 2 miles southwest of Downtown Long Beach and about 25 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, beside Interstate 110 and near the Aquarium of the Pacific. It is a working cargo facility, so access is not arranged for casual visitors; the harbor is patrolled by the Long Beach Harbor Patrol and served by fireboats.

In 1979 the port sent officials to the People's Republic of China, and within a year the China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO) made Long Beach its first US port of call. South Korea's Hanjin Shipping later opened a 57-acre container terminal on Pier C in 1991.