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"For the month of May, we expect that we'll be down about 30% from where we were in May of 2024," Noel Hacegaba, the port of Long Beach chief operating officer, tells Sky News.
"What that translates into is fewer ships and fewer containers. It means fewer trucks will be needed to transport those containers from the port terminal to the warehouses. It means fewer jobs."
'We're barely surviving'
Helen Andrade knows all about that. She and her husband, Javier, are both lorry drivers. Helen only got her license in the last few years, so when work dries up, she is likely to be impacted first.
"I'm lying awake at night worrying about this," she says.
"We're barely surviving and we're already seeing work slowing down. In my case, there are two incomes that are not going to come in. How are we going to survive?"
Helen adds: "I'm scared for the next two weeks, because over the next two weeks, I'm going to see where this is going, whether I have saved up enough money, which I know that I have not."
Trump's tariffs hit the West's busiest port - with traffic down by nearly a third
A lorry driver in California tells Sky News: "We're already seeing work slowing down. How are we going to survive?"
