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15 Apr

Port of LA Posts 3rd Straight Record Cargo Month

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationspola, portoptimizer

Last month, the Port of Los Angeles scored its third straight month of record cargo, wrapping up its best first quarter in history by 3.5%, according to new data released Tuesday. The nation’s busiest seaport moved 958,674 TEUs in March, the port’s third best month ever. The port handled 495,196 TEUs in imports in March, a 1% uptick year over year, while it moved 9% fewer loaded exports from March 2021 with 11,781 TEUs. Meanwhile, empty containers rose 2% from March 2021 with 351,697 TEUs. In the first quarter of 2022, the port moved more than 2.68 million TEUs, a…

12 Apr

Port of LA Completes Everport Terminal Improvements

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerterminal, everport, pola

The Port of Los Angeles has finished construction of its $65 million Everport Terminal Improvement Project located at Berths 226-236 along the Los Angeles Main Channel, the port has confirmed. The project, according to the port, would allow Everport to improve the container-handling efficiency and capacity of its existing terminal to accommodate the projected fleet mix of larger container vessels anticipated to call at the Everport Container Terminal over the next two decades. The deployment of these larger vessels encourages fewer ship calls, reducing air emissions. “The completion of this project marks years of planning and perseverance through a challenging…

12 Apr

LA, Long Beach Ports’ Container Dwell Fee Start Again Postponed

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerfees, pmsa, pola, polb

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have again moved the start date of a fee that would charge ocean carriers for lingering cargo containers. The start date is now planned for April 15, but implementation will depend on the weekly progress of how many older imports are staying on the ports’ docks past their allotted time. So far, leaders from both ports have been seeing the number of aging containers fall by 49% since first announcing the fee Oct. 25. Recently, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association reported better dwell times for cargo leaving by truck in February, with an…

08 Apr

Los Angeles, Long Beach Ports Establish Clean Truck Fund Program

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscleantruckfund, pola, polb, portcheck

The Los Angeles and Long Beach seaports this month formally kicked off the new Clean Truck Fund, which was established to further the development of zero-emission trucks and related infrastructure. The Clean Truck Fund program calls for the collection of at least $10 per loaded TEU on trucks coming and going from terminals. Containers hauled by zero-emission and low-nitrogen oxide-emitting drayage trucks may get short-term exemptions from the rate. The fund is expected to yield about $90 million in the first year of collection, according to the ports. “The launch of today’s program is an important step forward, yet much…

05 Apr

LA, Long Beach Ports Again Delay Container Dwell Fee

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerdwellfee, pola, polb

As lingering cargo continues to steadily make its way out of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, leaders from both ports have once again pushed back the start date to collect on container dwell fees from ocean carriers, this time to April 8. The fee, which would charge ocean carriers $100 for every import that stayed at terminals nine or more days plus $100 increments for every day a container remained, has been put on hold a week at a time since last fall as leaders review their dwell data. The pandemic has played a role in the…

01 Apr

Port of LA Seeking Terminal Island Site Lease Applicants

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationspola, terminalisland

The deadline is approaching for applicants interested in possibly leasing and developing the site on which the former Star-Kist Processing Plant sits in the fish harbor area at Terminal Island in San Pedro Bay. Applicants have until 3 p.m. on April 20 to submit their interest to the Port of Los Angeles’ Harbor Department on the 1050 Ways Street site. The roughly 8.63-acre site includes a big warehouse with a 267,720-square-foot ground-floor building footprint and a 38,165-square-foot parking area. Submissions from the port’s Requests for Expressions of Interest will be “an important factor in determining whether the Harbor Department will…

29 Mar

San Pedro Bay Ports’ Container Dwell Fee Start Date Again Delayed

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationspola, polb

A fee that would charge ocean carriers for lingering cargo containers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaports has again been postponed an additional week, this time to April 1. Leaders from both ports made the announcement following steady decline of older cargo leaving their docks. Since announcing the fee Oct. 25, the ports have watched lingering containers drop 57%. They plan to continue to monitor the progress week by week. The fee calls for ocean carriers to be billed $100 per container, with $100 daily increments per container until the container departs the terminal. Meanwhile, the Pacific Merchant…

25 Mar

LA, Long Beach Ports to Begin Collecting Clean Truck Fee April 1

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationspola

Starting April 1, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to start collecting $10 per TEU rate on loaded import and export containers moved by drayage trucks coming and going from terminals. The ports are working toward reaching zero-emissions for drayage trucks by 2035 and revenue from the fee will go toward the Clean Truck Fund, which was established to help pay for the transition to cleaner trucks and create the funds needed to speed up zero-emissions technology development. About $90 million could be generated in the first year toward that effort, according to the ports. Transiting to…