The Long Beach and Los Angeles Boards of Harbor Commissioners met jointly for a special workshop in early July, to identify opportunities to move forward with a demonstration of zero-emission technologies in the neighbouring ports.
“The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has expressed a great deal of interest in a demonstration of zero-emission technology. And for good reason,” said Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners president Susan E.AndersonWise. “It represents an opportunity to lead, once again, and to reduce air pollution even more than we have under the Clean Air Action Plan.”
“I am pleased with the extensive dialogue and proposed next steps that were explained and discussed at the workshop,” said Los Angeles Harbor Commission president Cindy Miscikowski. “With the input that we've received, the staff of the two ports can move forward to continue the process of advancing zero-emissions technologies.”
The discussion focused on ways to evaluate and eventually make commercially viable promising zero-emission technologies such as electric and fuel cell-assisted drayage trucks, locomotives with linear synchronous motors, and electric and fuel cell-assisted cargo- handling equipment.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach combined move more than $350 billion worth of goods and materials annually and sustain hundreds of thousands of jobs in Southern California.