Several terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach canceled their second shift on September 26 and will close on September 27 after a big rig overturned on a vital roadway and the lithium batteries it was carrying caught fire, Report informs via Bloomberg.
“The batteries have been damaged, and are on fire and off-gassing (with reports of one battery exploding),” the LAFD said in an alert at 2 p.m. local time.
The Southern California ports make up the busiest container hub in the US, handling roughly a third of the nation’s waterborne cargo.