San Pedro Bay

Long Beach Container Terminal Named “Project of the Year” at Sustainable Innovation Awards

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231207181866/en/
    Long Beach Container Terminal is one of the world's most advanced, environmentally friendly maritime cargo-handling terminals.
  • The massive effort resulted in an 86 percent reduction in greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions to date, while quadrupling LBCT’s cargo-handling capacity.
  • Additionally, LBCT is collaborating with operators of ships, trucks, and trains to incentivize clean cargo goods movement across the entire sector.
  • A copy of its first-year progress report, which was just recently published, is available upon request.

WattEV to open nation's largest heavy-duty truck charging depot at Port of Long Beach the week of May 15

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Thursday, May 4, 2023

ANAHEIM, Calif., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric transportation developer WattEV announced today that construction of its 26-truck charging plaza at the Port of Long Beach – the largest public truck charging station in the nation – is completed and scheduled to open for public use the week of May 15.

Key Points: 
  • WattEV announced the Long Beach station opening during the annual Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo industry conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.
  • The growing population of heavy-duty electric trucks running in and out of the nation's busiest ocean port complex now can charge up at the nation's largest public electric truck charging spot.
  • The WattEV facility will support the first batch of 14 Nikola electric trucks that will operate on WattEV's zero-emission fleet-transportation platform.
  • "Our truck-charging depot at the Port of Long Beach is a major step towards enabling transporters to transition to zero-emission trucking," Youssefzadeh said.

BNSF to Build New Integrated Rail Complex in Barstow to Increase Supply Chain Efficiency Nationwide

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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Key Points: 
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221001005031/en/
    The Barstow International Gateway will be an approximately 4,500-acre new integrated rail facility on the west side of Barstow, consisting of a rail yard, intermodal facility and warehouses for transloading freight from international containers to domestic containers.
  • Westbound freight will similarly be processed at the facility to more efficiently bring trains to the ports and other California terminals.
  • The significance of BNSFs investment to improve the supply chain here in California cannot be overstated.
  • Barstow International Gateway will be essential for modeling new and efficient ways to address supply chain issues that have impacted everyone over the past several years.

Pioneer Partners’ Mojave Inland Port Will Alleviate Supply Chain Issues, Create New Jobs, and Boost Local and State Economies

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The Mojave Inland Port will be a critical relief valve, absorbing a significant portion of this increased traffic and processing it in a more efficient, environmentally friendly, and less disruptive way.

Key Points: 
  • The Mojave Inland Port will be a critical relief valve, absorbing a significant portion of this increased traffic and processing it in a more efficient, environmentally friendly, and less disruptive way.
  • It is estimated that the Mojave Inland Port will have the capacity to handle approximately 3 million containers per year.
  • We appreciate the work that Pioneers Mojave Inland Port proposal has done to help find new solutions to address our supply chain challenges.
  • The Mojave Inland Port will break ground in 2023 and will be fully operational in 2024.

Port of Los Angeles Preliminarily Awarded $41 Million from California Air Resources Board to Launch Zero Emissions Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Electric Freight Project

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Friday, September 14, 2018

SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $41 million to the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) for the Zero-Emission and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) project.

Key Points: 
  • SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $41 million to the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) for the Zero-Emission and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) project.
  • "The Port of Los Angeles is showing the world that we don't need to choose between environmental stewardship and economic growth and this funding will help put zero emissions goods movement within our reach," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
  • North America's leading seaport by container volume and cargo value, the Port of Los Angeles facilitated $284 billion in trade during 2017.
  • San Pedro Bay port complex operations and commerce facilitate one in nine jobs in the five-county Southern California region.