(Bloomberg) — Several terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach remained closed Friday after a tractor-trailer overturned on a vital artery for cargo and a fire among its payload of lithium batteries burned for a second day.
“The batteries have been damaged, and are on fire and off-gassing, with reports of one battery exploding,” the LA Fire Department said in an alert about the incident that began Thursday.
The accident occurred on a stretch of roadway linking the two ports, shutting several terminals through Friday’s second shift. The neighboring Southern California ports make up the busiest container hub in the US, handling roughly a third of the nation’s seaborne imports.
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