(15 Apr 2025)
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Long Beach, California – 15 April 2025
1. Wide shot of cargo ship "New Honor" docked at the Port of Long Beach amidst tariff discussions
2. Wide shot of trucks navigating the Port of Long Beach
3. Wide shot of Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach looking out over the port
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach:
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"Well, you’re here at the nation’s largest container port complex. Right now we’re estimating a 20% reduction in volume for the second half of 2025. Now that again is under the assumption that the tariff implementation is going to move forward at some high numbers."
5. Signage shot of Long Beach Container Terminal entrance amidst ongoing tariff discussions.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach:
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"Our concerns about reduction, I think are gonna really start being elevated as we move towards May. We already have – our staff has now recorded 17 cancelled sailings from the international carriers, which means less containers coming into the complex."
7. Wide shot of Cosco container ships docked at Long Beach amidst ongoing tariff discussions.
8. Wide shot of the Port of Long Beach with stacked shipping containers.
9. Wide shot of shipping containers and trucks
10. Wide shot of cargo ships navigating the waters near Long Beach, California, amidst ongoing tariff discussions.
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach:
"It’s gonna be interesting to see what the unintended consequences may be- which is loss of jobs. And of course when you lose jobs, unemployment goes up, there’s less consumer spending and 2/3 of our GDP is based on consumer spending."
12. Tracking shot of shipping containers being transported.
13. Wide shot of the International Seafarers Center in Long Beach as seafarer Robert Spakowski enters
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Spakowski, commercial ship seafarer:
"Well we come up here and we go to the union, various union halls for our job calls and get assigned to our positions on various ships. And what everyone’s talking about right now is how the tariffs could affect us and our jobs."
15. Mid shot of seafarers discussing the ongoing tariff issues.
16. Mid shot of clocks showing times in China, Ukraine, India, Korea and Long Beach.
17. Wide shot of shipping containers and cranes near a sign for the Seafarers Center.
18. Mid shot of Spakowski preparing coffee at the seafarers’ center in Long Beach.
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Spakowski, commercial ship seafarer:
"There’ll be only so many jobs to go around and a lot of guys looking for work. So it was spelled out by some of the dispatchers at the unions that this is a concern. This is probably gonna be happening. And it’s gonna affect us all. You know, it’s our livelihood. We’re concerned about it and there’s thousands of workers down here that are watching the news every day, seeing what’s gonna happen."
20. Wide shot of container ship MSC Teresa docked at the Port of Long Beach.
21. A poster shows an overview of the Port of Long Beach.
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Spakowski, commercial ship seafarer:
23. Mid shot of a seafarer’s luggage waiting for a ship posting
24. Wide shot of COSCO Shipping vessel docked at Long Beach port amid tariff discussions.
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