Editing Los Angeles County, California (section)

=== Sea ===
The county's two main seaports are the [[Port of Los Angeles]] and the [[Port of Long Beach]]. Together they handle over a quarter of all [[containerization|container]] traffic entering the United States, making the complex the largest and most important port in the country, and the third-largest port in the world by shipping volume.

The Port of Los Angeles is the largest cruise ship center on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]], handling more than 1{{nbsp}}million passengers annually.

The Port of Long Beach is home to the [[Sea Launch]] program, which uses a floating launch platform to insert payloads into orbits that would be difficult to attain from existing land-based launch sites.

[[Catalina Express]] ferries link the Catalina Island city of [[Avalon, California|Avalon]] to the mainland at [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] and [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]], as well as [[Dana Point, California|Dana Point]] in [[Orange County, California|Orange County]].