California’s big three container ports saw a 4% rise in handling in April, reversing a decline in March. Long Beach did better than LA for an eighth straight month after a 22% surge in exports from the former overwhelmed a loss of China inbound traffic for the latter. Oakland continued to see lackluster growth with an expansion of 2%. That could have been much worse if not for a 27% rise in shipments from South Korea and 20% from Japan. A wide-ranging tariff war between the U.S. and China would bode ill for all three ports. In the meantime a 9% growth in exports from the state beat a 2% ...