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Article: Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports are Crown Jewels of Far East Trade. (Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 17, 1994
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Oct. 17--Fifty years after Columbus sailed into the West Indies, Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo rounded San Pedro Bay, which he christened Bay
of Smoke for Indian fires on shore.
The smoke never cleared. Today a yellow ribbon of industrial haze stretches across 58 miles of California wharfs, warehouses, railways, ships and truck yards that form a semicircle around the world's fourth-busiest waterway.
Notwithstanding their Dickensian pallor, the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are crown jewels of Far East trade, handling $124 billion in cargo last year, nearly 12 percent of the nation's trade total.
Orange County alone will ...