Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Port of Los Angeles is located in San Pedro Bay, approximately 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. The Port complex occupies 7,500 acres of land and water along 43 miles of waterfront. The Port is an independent, self-supporting department of the government of the City of Los Angeles. The Port is under the control of a five-member Board of Harbor Commissioners appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council, and is administered by an executive director. The Harbor Commission was founded in 1907. The container volume was 5.6 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in fiscal year 2002 and 5.0 million TEUs in fiscal year 2001. The Port is the busiest port in the United States by container volume. Official Port of Los Angeles Website This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.