The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reported combined January traffic up slightly for the second straight month but individual port activity mixed.

Combined activity, including shipping of empty containers, rose 1.6 percent, with combined outbound traffic up nearly 32 percent.

Imported cargo at the Long Beach port rose nearly 9 percent compared with January 2008, with exports up 28 percent. Los Angeles inbound traffic was down more than 6.7 percent with outbound traffic jumping 35 percent.

Long Beach moved 217,925 TEUs (20-foot equivalent container units) of import cargo and 113,183 TEUs of exports, generally scrap paper and other raw materials, it said. Los Angeles reported 296,304 TEUs of import cargo and 141,243 TEUs of export cargo.