Tag: Port of Long Beach

The Port of Long Beach is moving ahead with a $16.8 million project to build infrastructure to support electric-powered, zero-emissions cargo-handling equipment, and to demonstrate the world’s first heavy-duty, off-road, direct current fast-charging system in a seaport environment.

Four months into 2018, the Port of Long Beach has moved 2.5 million TEUs, an amount more than 17% above last year’s record pace. In April, dockworkers handled 618,438 TEUs, a 10.8% increase above the same month last year. Import containers increased by 8.4% to 312,376 TEUs compared to last April.

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are offering seed money to foster the development of new goods-movement technologies that will improve air quality, as part of the ports’ Technology Advancement Program. The Ports’ TAP is focused on clean technologies specifically for maritime related mobile sources that operate in and around ports.

The Port of Long Beach informed that it achieved its best-ever first quarter, with marine terminals handling almost 1.9 million TEUs, from January through March. The quick start is 19.4% more than the first quarter of 2017, which is the Port’s busiest year ever. The previous first quarter record that the Port of Long Beach had set was in 2007.

The project is funded mostly by a $9.7 million grant from the California Energy Commission, and will bring 25 vehicles that are zero - or near zero -emissions to Port of Long Beach marine terminals for one year to test their performance in a real-world setting. The project aims to reduce GHG by more than 1,323 tons and smog-causing nitrogen oxides by 27 tons each year.

Port of Long Beach reported a remarkable start to 2018, as the Port recorded another record for cargo volume for February, after having done the same on January. Namely, the Port of Long Beach handled 661,790 TEUs in February. The 661,790 TEUs that the Port handled is a 32.8% increase compared to February 2017.

The Port of Long Beach and GE Transportation will collaborate to improve cargo flow at the Port of Long Beach. The Port is launching a pilot program with GE Transportation to increase visibility, enhance real-time decision-making and optimize cargo movement through the Port. 

The Port of Long Beach's Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, greenlighting a project that will move cargo faster, with fewer environmental impacts. The project is part of the port's plan to stay competitive and minimize truck trips generated by anticipated cargo growth.

The request for proposals by the ports, under their Technology Advancement Program, offers $1 million -$500,000 from each port- to fund demonstrations of one or more cost-effective technologies that can eliminate at-berth emissions from ships that don’t fall under the state’s shore power mandate.

The ‘S. 2083 legislation’ would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a model for assessing cybersecurity risk in the maritime sector, as well as guidelines for information sharing with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.