The Port of Long Beach makes major capital investments each year as a leader in goods movement and a pioneering environmental steward.
The Port’s capital improvements include environmental infrastructure projects to improve air and water quality, clean soil and underwater sediment, protect wildlife and to create a sustainable Port. Also, the capital projects improve the efficiency of the Port’s shipping facilities. A major economic force, the Port supports more than 30,000 jobs in Long Beach and 316,000 jobs throughout Southern California.
Major projects include:
Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement: A $950 million project to build a new bridge to span the Port's Main Channel. The new bridge will be higher, to allow additional clearance for ships, and will also be wider, to ease the flow of cars and trucks that use the bridge. For more information click here.
Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project: A modernization of two aging shipping terminals. The program will add on-dock rail capacity, shore power hookups and allow the new terminal to move twice the cargo with half the air pollution. Phase 1 construction is planned to begin in 2011. For more information, click here. To access the Project Labor Agreement for the Phase 1 project, click here.
Pier G modernization: A multi-year, $980 million renovation of the ITS container terminal. Construction of a new terminal administration and operations complex, new maintenance and repair facility and a new on-dock rail yard is underway. Shore power facilities and additional dock space are also being added. For more information, click here.
Long Beach Harbor dredging: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port have commenced a $40 million dredging project to aid navigation in and around the Port, safely contain contaminated sediments and recycle the dredge material as fill in the Pier G modernization project.
Pier S container terminal: A proposal to build a new terminal at the Port of Long Beach on existing vacant land in the Port. The terminal would cost about $650 million to construct, and would be built with the latest in clean-air technology and cargo-movement efficiencies.
On-Dock Rail Support Facility: A proposal to redevelop an existing rail yard on Pier B and to remove rail bottlenecks in the Port. The facility would allow additional on-dock rail use at the Port, reducing truck trips. Port staff is currently developing the draft environmental impact report on the proposal.
I-710 Corridor Project: The Long Beach Freeway (I-710) is a vital transportation artery, linking the Port of Long Beach to the rest of Southern California and beyond. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is heading a regional effort to study the potential environmental impacts of improvement projects on the corridor. The Port of Long Beach is one of several agencies funding the study. Read more.
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