A basket that can carry as many as eight 1-ton pallets is lifted by crane off the deck of a ship carrying fresh bananas from Latin America as a longshoreman driving a forklift waits below. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A few fishing boats remain at the end of the main channel between two wharves that hold the berths of the Port of Hueneme. Most of the sport fishing fleet has moved to the nearby Channel Island Harbor. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A longshoreman at the Port of Hueneme drives a forklift loaded with pallets of bananas from two ships carrying fresh fruit from Latin America. Banana imports were up 9.4% in the port’s most recent quarter. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A Port of Hueneme parking lot is partially filled with new European vehicles unloaded from a ship. A drop in auto shipments has been a big blow to the port. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Squid are taken off commercial fishing boats at the Port of Hueneme and packed in ice before being loaded onto trucks for delivery to customers. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The Port of Hueneme relies mostly on automobile and produce imports for its business. If there’s trouble in one of those businesses, as there was this year in the auto industry, there’s trouble at the port. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The Port of Hueneme has been hit even harder by the global recession than its massive siblings, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and is scrambling for new business. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
