This Green Port Harbor Tour Narration Guide provides talking points for a harbor tour. The first portion guides you along the actual tour route while the last portion covers major topics in more detail. Topics are organized to correspond with points on the route, but feel free to make this tour your own!

Color-Coded Guide

● Major Topics

● Harbor Areas

● Terminals

● Sub-sections

● Key facts and/or interesting points

● Narration Cues/Tips

Housekeeping

● Introduce yourself, providing your name and your position at the Port

● Thank your passengers, vessel captain and crew

● Remind guests of the Port’s social media platforms (Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook)

● Ask that they share pictures using #PortTours or by tagging @portoflongbeach

● Tell guests that trivia questions will be asked with prizes awarded for the right answers

Welcome to the Port of Long Beach

● We’re a major U.S. seaport – every year handling hundreds of billions of dollars of goods and materials coming in as imports and going out as exports.

● We have furniture, clothing, toys, auto parts, fully made autos, oil, food and electronics coming in. We have proteins, soybeans, iron ore, scrap paper and machines going out.

● Cargo comes in all shapes and sizes, but most of our business – 75 percent – is moving containers.

● Containers have some standard sizes – 20 feet long and 40 feet long.

● A 20-foot-long container is counted as one container unit – one twenty-foot equivalent unit – or T.E.U.

● When we talk about the biggest or busiest ports, it’s usually based on how many TEUs they handle.

● Same with container ships – they can range from 1,000 TEU size to 24,000 TEU size.

● We’re a department of the city of Long Beach – the Harbor Department.

● As a public agency, it’s our role to show the local community who we are and what we do.

We Are the Green Port

● These public harbor tours were started nearly 20 years ago to help inform the community about the Port’s environmental programs.

● Guided by our award-winning Green Port Policy, we are improving air and water quality, protecting marine wildlife and implementing sustainable practices.

● In 2025, the Port will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Green Port Policy.

● As a leader in environmental stewardship, the Port of Long Beach is committed to seaport sustainability, thanks to its innovative and comprehensive efforts to reduce and eliminate the harmful impacts usually associated with port operations.

The Port of Long Beach is:

● 2^nd-busiest U.S. container cargo seaport (Next door neighbor LA is first, New York/New Jersey is third – Check in January again – we might come in third in the 2024. But throughout 2024, we can cite the 2023 standings)

● If combined, the San Pedro Bay ports would be the 9^th-busiest in the world.

● Major gateway for U.S.-Asia trade

● Environmental leader in the port industry, with green technologies and innovations that are emulated by other ports

● We do not use tax revenue for operations, we do not levy a tax on residents of Long Beach. Tenant leases and other fees provide majority of revenue

● We receive grants from federal, state and local agencies to fund certain infrastructure projects – like our new bridge and at times for sustainability projects like zero-emissions demonstrations

● Big ship ready; one of only a few U.S. seaports with the infrastructure to accommodate mega-vessels

Welcomed MSC’s 23,700 TEU ship named MSC Mia, largest vessel to ever call at a U.S. Port; came to Pier T in April 2020.

The Port has:

● 12 piers

● 80 active berths

● 76 gantry cranes

The Port moves:

● $200 billion in cargo each year

● 8.02 million container units in 2023 – record was 9.38 million in 2021 due to COVID cargo surge

The Port supports:

● 1 in 5 or 51,000 jobs in Long Beach

● 576,000 jobs in Southern California

● 2.6 million jobs in U.S.

Clean Air Technology:

· In addition to our Green Port Policy, we have a ZEERO policy – for Zero Emissions, Energy Resilient Operations.

· The Port of Long Beach is undergoing a major transformation to become the country’s first zero-emissions port, and that will take a great deal of technology advances.

· We have major projects to transition our stacking cranes and other terminal equipment – which we’ll show you today -- to zero by 2030, and our truck fleet – the same ones you see out on the 710 Freeway – to zero by 2035.

· These are ambitious goals that make the port complex into an incubator and testing grounds of clean air technologies.

· We’re phasing out diesel-powered equipment in favor of zero-emissions equipment. This includes cranes, trucks, forklifts, yard tractors. We’re also starting to add zero-emissions locomotives and tugboats.

Queensway Bay/Outer Harbor

The Port DOES NOT manage the following points of interest

Aquarium of the Pacific

● Among largest in U.S.

● More than 11,000 ocean animals and 500 species

● Nonprofit opened aquarium in 1998

Queen Mary

● Floating hotel and museum; in Long Beach since 1967, moved to Pier H in 1971

● QM is 1,019 feet long compared to Titanic’s 880 feet

● 1936 maiden voyage, 31 years in service (1936-1967)

● WWII troop carrier (16,000 troops per voyage); Painted gray during World War II; never fired on; one of the fastest vessels of its kind; nicknamed “Gray Ghost”

Spruce Goose Dome

● Passenger terminal for Carnival Cruise Line

● One of five largest geodesic domes in the world

● Accommodates 1.3 million passengers annually

● Completed in 1982 to house Howard Hughes’ legendary Spruce Goose, one of the largest planes ever flown

● Spruce Goose’s only flight: Long Beach Harbor, November 1947

● Spruce Goose displayed here 1982 to 1992 (now in Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, OR)

Pier J Bike/Walk Path

● Opened in 2021, the Pier J Bike and Walk Path is reachable from Downtown Long Beach, the LA River trail, via Queensway Bridge. The path passes Hotel Maya, and goes through the Queen Mary complex

● Dedicated bike path with pedestrian lanes and two observation decks

THUMS Oil Islands

● Four man-made islands built in 1965 in Long Beach Harbor

● Taps into Wilmington Oil Field, one of largest in continental U.S.

● Islands named for fallen astronauts: Grissom, Chaffee, White (Apollo 1) and Freeman (test pilot accident)

● Name is from original oil partners: Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil, Shell

● 640,000 tons of boulders – some as large as five tons each – were mined from Catalina Island to build the islands

Only decorated oil islands in the United States; buildings actually cover rigs for drilling oil; designers worked for Disney and designed the landscape to mimic Long Beach’s urban/coastal environment

Anchorage Area

● The Coast Guard has delegated jurisdiction to Jacobsen Pilot Services to manage the anchorage area

● There are anchorage areas both inside and outside the breakwater

● Vessels will anchor to bunker (to take fuel) or wait to be brought to dock

● If you remember the scenes during the COVID-19 pandemic, with ships stacked up off the coast, we started a queuing system in 2021, to reduce the impact of vessel emissions on Southern California.

Pier J

● Terminal Operator: SSA Marine - Pacific Container Terminal (PCT)

● Shipping Lines: COSCO Shipping, part of the OCEAN Alliance with members, OOCL, CMA CGM, and Evergreen

● 256-acre container terminal; 17 gantry cranes

● Capable of working 22,000 TEU vessel

● COSCO Shipping is China’s largest shipping line and the 3^rd-largest in the world

● Take note of on-dock rail yard viewable from the water – On-Dock rail reduces truck trips by using trains to transport containers directly to and from terminals, with far fewer trucks trips.

· Pier J is home to the nation’s largest deployment of fully electric rubber-tired gantry cranes.

· About 21% of all terminal equipment at POLB is zero-emissions, and our goal is 100%

San Pedro Bay Breakwater

● World’s longest man-made breakwater

● 9 miles long; 3 sections

● 200 feet wide at bottom, 23 feet wide at top

● Two entrances for ships: Queen’s Gate in L.B. and Angel’s Gate in L.A.

● Federal structure, not owned or operated by POLB or City

Breakwater took 50 years to construct (1899 - 1949)

At any time in the cruise, introduce information on green policies/plans, programs implemented to reduce pollution and wildlife under Commitment to Environment

Main Channel

● One of the deepest dredged channels in the U.S. at 76 feet

● Allows world’s largest container ships and massive oil tankers to access Port berths

● Can also handle largest container ships — up to 24,000 TEU vessels

● We do have plans to dredge further, to handle larger tanker vessels.

Subsidence, or sinking of ground, in the Port because of oil extraction had one benefit in the 1930s and ’40s -- increasing the depth of the Main Channel to as much as 60 feet (was later dredged to 76 feet)

This is also a good point to direct audience to the trains on Pier J and mention importance of on-dock rail and other information under Rail

Southeast Basin

Good point to mention Shore Power

· Shore power allows cargo ships to plug into the electrical grid while at berth – turning off their diesel engines. At berth, ships need power for lighting, pumps, communications and other systems. Shore power nearly eliminates emissions from ships at berth.

· It’s a practice that was pioneered at the Port of Long Beach, where it worked so well, that the state of California made it a law for all major ports. Long Beach and L.A. were requiring use of shore power, via lease agreements, long before it was required by the state.

(more info under “Commitment to the Environment”)

Pier G

● First container terminal with shore power (2008), more on-dock capacity, green buildings

● Shipping Lines: Zim, Yang Ming (until July 2024)

● Terminal Operator: International Transportation Service (ITS)

● 246 acres; 15 gantry cranes

● Port’s oldest container terminal; opened in 1972

● First on-dock rail facility in Southern California (1986)

● Completed in 2023, the Pier G Wharf Improvement Project extended the wharf by 245 ft. to accept up to 14,000-TEU vessels

Petroleum Coke Sheds

● Operated by Metro Ports

● Pet coke sheds provide for covered storage and unloading

● Cut dust in air by 80 percent

● Pet coke is a byproduct of oil refining process

● Used as industrial fuel in steel manufacturing

● Petroleum coke is a top export by weight

Pier F

Morton Salt

● 25,000 tons of salt in pile

● Salt imported from Baja California

● Facility imports 125,000 tons of salt a year

● Salt used for water softener, food preservative, melting ice, industrial uses

Olympus Terminals

● Petroleum facility with marine and maritime fuels

● Gas station for boats – load bunker barges which fuel the ships

● They import recycled fuels and bio diesel

Crescent and Cooper T. Smith

● Tractors, steel, construction equipment imported and exported

● Mercedes-Benz and Porsche automobiles imported through this facility

● About 250,000 metric tons of steel imported each year

● Break bulk terminal – large & oddly shaped cargo that can’t fit into a container

Returning to Main Channel/Outer Harbor

Pier Wind

● The Port of Long Beach is proposing to create a new facility to assemble off-shore wind turbines for use in California’s offshore wind farms

● The project is known as “Pier Wind” and would be located directly south of Navy Mole, in an area of open water now

● Once assembled, floating offshore wind turbines standing as tall as the Eiffel Tower – about 1,000 feet high -- would be towed by sea from the Port of Long Beach to wind lease areas in Central and Northern California that will generate reliable and renewable power for the state

● Locale is ideal due to lack of obstructions above to open ocean, and as a source of the skilled workforce that will be needed to build and operate the facility

● If approved, Pier Wind would be the largest facility of its kind in the United States and would help California meet a goal of producing 25 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2045

● Construction could start as soon as 2027, with 200 acres operational by 2031 and another 200 acres coming online in 2035

● Aligns with Green Port Policy and strategic objectives

Jacobsen Pilot Services

● Jacobsen is a family-owned, private business

● At the Port since 1924 – Celebrating 100 years in 2024!

● Port pilots board incoming ships about 2 miles outside breakwater and take over for captain

● Pilots have specialized knowledge of harbor waters, sea floor and hazards

● Work with tugboat operators to bring ships into and out of the Port

● Radar tower at Jacobsen, which was formerly an oil derrick and nearly 100 years old, was replaced in January 2022

● JPS is a leader in replacing watercraft with cleaner running engines

JPS was the first in the United States to install land-based radar at the Port of Long Beach in 1949

Joint Command and Control Center (JCCC)

● The Port of Long Beach security team’s mission is to protect the integrity of cargo operations and information systems in order to safeguard the thousands-strong local maritime workforce, ensure business continuity and strengthen the resilience of cargo operations at one of the nation’s busiest ports.

● Security facility opened in 2009

● Named the “Joint Command and Control Center” because it is the hub for the multilayered, multi-agency security operations at the Port.

● Three-story 25,000-square-foot facility, with a helipad on the rooftop

● Agencies here include Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard, Long Beach Police & Fire, Long Beach Harbor Patrol, Port of L.A. and Marine Exchange of Southern California

● The structure is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified, incorporating environmentally friendly design, recycled materials, energy efficiency and sustainable construction practices

MICROGRID @ JCCC

● The Joint Command and Control Center is the site of a new microgrid project that was partially funded by the California Energy Commission.

● Microgrids — systems of onsite power generation, storage and controls that are capable of isolation from the grid — could one day protect electricity-reliant marine terminals against grid failures.

● The microgrid has a network of electrical controls, plus 688 solar panels and enough battery capacity to power the equivalent of almost 50 houses in California for a whole day.

● The microgrid will allow us to operate in this critical facility during power outages, which will be very important during disaster response. It will also be used to reduce our reliance on the grid during peak hours.

This area was once home to the Pierpoint Landing tourist area, which had fishing, shops, restaurants and recreational boating (closed in 1972)

Suggested point to introduce other information under the Security section

Fireboats

● World’s largest and most advanced; named Protector (#15) and Vigilance (#20)

● Can shoot water the length of two football fields at a rate of up to 60,000 gallons per minute

● Can shoot water higher than a 20-story building

● Construction cost was $51.6 million for the two boats, Protector added in 2016, Vigilance in 2017

● Fireboat Station No. 15 and boat bay opened summer of 2021; Fireboat Station No. 20 opened in early 2024

● Fire safety program key to Port’s ability to protect safety of workforce and community, as well as preserve business continuity and resilience

East Basin/ Middle Harbor

Long Beach Container Terminal

● $1.5 billion construction of Long Beach Container Terminal completed in 2021, creating the nation’s greenest container terminal, a showcase of zero-emissions technology and systems.

● Two aging terminals were redeveloped into one modern terminal with advanced technology.

● The result is a terminal that moves more than twice the cargo with less than half the emissions.

● Additional cargo adds 14,000 regional jobs

● It is an automated terminal, only one in Long Beach

● By itself, at full annual capacity of 3.3 million container units, it would rank as the nation’s sixth busiest port

● LBCT will be carbon neutral by 2040

● All major buildings on LBCT built to LEED Gold standard for environmental sustainability and energy efficiency

● Most of LBCT vehicles and cargo-handling equipment runs on electricity and is zero emissions. LBCT In the process of replacing all fossil fuel-powered equipment with ZE versions

● Terminal Operator: Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT)

● Shipping Lines: OCEAN Alliance with members OOCL, COSCO Shipping, CMA CGM, and Evergreen.

● 24,000 TEU Vessel capacity

● 304-acre container terminal

● In April 2012 OOCL signed a 40-year, $4.6 billion lease for the new LBCT

● OOCL was acquired by COSCO Shipping in 2018

● In 2019, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, an Australian investment group, bought LBCT leasehold

● 18 gantry cranes, 69 stacking cranes, 102 automated guided vehicles (AGVs)

● Cranes can load/unload two 40 ft. containers or four 20 ft. containers at a time

● Gantry cranes (ship to shore) are human-operated

Cemex USA

● Reopened in 2018 after nine-year hiatus to receive cement and slag from Mexico

● On average the Port sees one of these ships every other month

● Silos 176 feet high

● 50,000 tons of cement each year

Historic Transit Sheds

● These transit/storage sheds are historic landmarks

● Built in 1950s, great example of how cargo was moved pre-containerization

● Cargo was unloaded by hand and stored in these massive buildings

● Unloading a ship took weeks – today it takes 3-5 days to unload/load much bigger ships

Long Beach International Gateway Bridge

● $1.5 billion span opened to traffic in October 2020

● Connects Terminal Island and Long Beach mainland

● 15 percent of nation’s imported cargo moves over bridge

● 75 percent of bridge traffic is commuter traffic

● 205-foot clearance to accommodate big ships

● 515-foot towers are the tallest structures in Long Beach

● New cable-stayed bridge is wider, includes safety lanes.

● Replaced the Gerald Desmond Bridge which opened in 1968.

● Even though it is higher, the new bridge is less steep, with a 5 percent grade compared to the Desmond’s 6 percent.

● Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle-Pedestrian Path on new bridge officially opened in 2023

● The bike and pedestrian path was dedicated to Mark Bixby, a longtime bicycle activist and member of prominent Bixby family, who died in plane crash March 2011

● Previous bridges were the Gerald Desmond Bridge (opened 1968, demolished 2022) and Pontoon Bridge (opened 1944, closed 1968 [was supposed to last 6 months during WWII])

● Bridge safety – support towers are on land, and can’t be struck by ships.

● Ships transiting under the bridge are accompanied by tugboats at all times, which guards against safety issues if the ship should lose power.

● Seismic safety – engineered to withstand major quakes, and last 100 years.

Inner Harbor (North of the Bridge)

Oldest part of the Port, operations began here more than 100 years ago (1911)

Pier C

● Shipping Line: Matson (Matson and Pasha only American-owned ocean carriers at the Port)

● Terminal Operator: SSA Marine

● Matson was founded in 1882

● 70-acre container terminal

● Long Beach is home to two of Hawaii’s shipping lines, Pasha and Matson

● Matson also has a China-Express route, service between Shanghai and Long Beach

● The Port’s second container facility to have shore power (2011)

● Some ships here are “conro” – half container, half-roro for car transport

● Deployed 33 ZE battery-electric yard tractors and charging systems in 2023 to move containers around the terminal.

● More ZE equipment on the way.

One of the earlier pioneers of containerized shipping, late 1950s

Matson signed Port’s first Green Lease in 2006. Green Leases cut air pollution through agreements to use new technologies, cleaner fuels and more

Pier B

● Terminal Operator: Toyota Logistics Services

● 168-acre vehicle terminal

● Toyota has approval to redevelop their scattered facilities into a single building

● Imports about 250,000 vehicles a year; and exports thousands more

● Large car carriers hold 1,800-2,500 vehicles each

● “Ro/Ro” (roll-on/roll-off) carriers arrive twice a week

● Takes about 7 hours to unload car carrier

● Toyota started shipping cars here in 1960

Toyota/FuelCell Energy Tri-gen Facility

● Over here on Pier B, hydrogen-based fuel is being incorporated in our move toward zero emissions

● Toyota North America and FuelCell energy have joined together to operate the first-of-its-kind “Tri-gen” system

● The Tri-gen system generates green hydrogen for fuel cell electric vehicles – the Toyota Mirai – imported to the terminal – which is Toyota’s largest port facility in North America

● The terminal is also equipped with a hydrogen refueling station for heavy-duty drayage trucks serving Toyota

● Usable water created during the hydrogen generation process is repurposed for Toyota’s car wash operations, which helps reduce the demand on local water supplies

● Excess electricity created during the hydrogen generation process is delivered to the local power grid

● The combustion-free process is a first of its kind nationally

● It reduces more than 9,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and eliminates 6 tons of nitrogen oxides emissions annually

Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility Program

● Pier B is transforming the North Harbor into a reliable, efficient rail gateway between our 5 on-dock rail terminals and the Alameda Corridor.

● This $1.6 billion project is expanding the 12-track Pier B Rail Yard into a 48-track facility with 5-tracks long enough to hold 10,000-ft long trains (which is almost 2 miles).

● Those long trains can be sorted into blocks by either their Long Beach terminal or their inland destination on 41- support tracks.

● Once complete, Pier B will improve reliability, serving as an operational buffer in the case of ship or train delays.

● Pier B will also include dedicated space for servicing locomotives and rail cars.

● The Project will increase the yard from 82 to 171 acres, add more than 130,000 of rail, and quadrupling the number of tracks.

● The Project promotes a mode shift from truck to train. The Port’s goal is to move 35% of cargo by on-dock rail.

● This new rail capacity will take some trucks off the 710 Freeway, strengthen the Port’s competitive position, and lower the carbon footprint of the supply chain.

New National Gypsum Co.

● Gypsum rock imported from Mexico

● Manufactured into wallboard (“drywall”) on-site

● Used to make walls in homes

Marathon Petroleum Terminals

● Andeavor/Tesoro Logistics Operations

● One of the largest independent refiners of petroleum products in the U.S.

● Six storage tanks, with total capacity of approximately 235,000 barrels

● Oil terminals at POLB connect to refineries via pipeline

Pier A

● Shipping Lines: Pasha Hawaii, Matson, SM Line, and Swire Shipping (Polynesia Line)

● Independent alliances with many vessel strings

● Terminal Operator: SSA Marine

● 170-acre container terminal

● Located on former contaminated oil site, cleaned up and reused

● Majority of containerized freight from Australia goes through here

● Pasha Hawaii container operation moved from POLA to POLB SSA Terminal Pier A in April 2020. California Hawaii Express (CHX) and Long Beach Hawaii Express (LHX) service deliver consistent service from Hawaii to the San Pedro Bay.

● Pasha operates five vessels – a container/roll-on/roll-off (ConRo) vessel and four containerships.

● In 2022, Pasha deployed its LNG-powered George III, and in 2023, added the LNG-powered Janet Marie. Both ships have a capacity of 2,525 TEUs. They cut diesel soot, NOx and carbon monoxide.

Ford Bridge/Alameda Corridor

● Henry Ford Bridge (also known as Badger Ave. Bridge) constructed in 1924 (railroad bridge)

● Schuyler Heim Bridge (road traffic) was once drawbridge; Caltrans replaced it with a fixed bridge in 2020

● Trains connect to Alameda Corridor

● The Alameda Corridor is a $2.4-billion, 20-mile-long train highway to East Los Angeles rail yards

● With 10 miles long; 30-foot-deep trench

● Eliminated 200 rail crossings

● On-dock rail projects increase use of Corridor for less roadway traffic congestion & air pollution reduction

Pier S

● Undeveloped property located on formerly contaminated oil field

● Site has been cleaned or remediated.

● Current home of the Short-Term Overflow Resource yard or STOR, which opened to streamline movement of cargo through the Port to help ease congestion and rail off dock containers during COVID and has remained in operation since.

Edison Plant

● Former Edison power plant; now the Long Beach Generating Station, owned by NRG Energy

● Rarely used, but is able to function as a backup during peak usage to help avoid rolling blackouts

● Edison plant is the oldest surviving structure on Port property

● Construction began in 1910 and it came online in 1912

● This area is the center of the Wilmington Oil Field

● Most of Port’s oldest buildings had to be demolished in the 1940s when they sank due to subsidence

● Epicenter was Terminal Island, near the power plant

● Ground sank because of oil extraction, beginning in the 1930s.

● The sinking stopped in 1967, after nearly 1.5 billion barrels of ocean water was pumped underground

Note that the Edison plant sits about 30 feet below the water level

Returning to Back Channel

Coming back under the Bridge Project, reference right side of Back Channel

SA Recycling

● Iron ore from Mountain West exported through this facility

● 20-acre terminal

● Recycles storm-water and uses it for dust control -- saves water resources

Marathon Petroleum

● Marathon operates at two terminals – Pier B and Pier T

● Oil shipments from Alaska (North Slope); also oil from Middle East and Latin America

● Tankers as long as 3 football fields

● Tankers carry 1-2 million barrels of oil

● Petroleum piped to local refineries; no truck trips

Currently the world’s only oil tanker terminal with shore power. Plugging in one oil tanker is the equivalent of taking 187,000 cars off the roads

Weyerhaeuser Co.

● Transports lumber from Pacific Northwest by barge

● Company founded in 1900

● Company reforests nearly 98 percent of harvested acres within two years

● For its first 20-30 years, the Port’s main cargo was lumber, used to build homes for a growing population in Southern California

Facility is a link to the Port’s past; first shipment at the Port was lumber in 1911

First call was made by the S.S. Iaqua (pronounced Eye-A-Quay) near Pier D.

West Basin

Pier T

● Terminal Operator: Total Terminals International (TTI), Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk

● 24,000 TEU Vessel capacity

● Terminal size: 385 acres

● One of North America’s largest container shipping facilities

● 1-mile long wharf; 3 ships can berth at same time

● Port’s largest on-dock rail yard and one of world’s largest; eight 1-mile-long trains at once

Long Beach Naval Shipyard – Pier T is the site of former Long Beach Naval Station and Shipyard

Navy leased the land for $1 a year for nearly 50 years beginning in the 1940s

After end of Cold War, Naval station decommissioned in 1997 (shipyard shut down in 1994)

Can fit two theme parks the size of Disneyland/California Adventure inside

Space X

Former home of Sea Launch

● Space Explorations Technologies Corp, known widely as Space X, was approved for a sublease agreement in 2021

● Space X took over a waterfront, wharf-equipped Long Beach facility vacated in 2020 by Sea Launch, a commercial satellite launching company that had been based at the Port for 20 years.

● Space X will use the marine terminal for its West Coast rocket recovery operations

● ABL Space Systems, another space tech company, also leases space on Navy Mole as a spacecraft processing facility.

Ready Reserve Vessels

● Part of U.S. Maritime Administration Ready Reserve Force

● 2 vessels – Cape Isabel and Cape Inscription

● Transports Army, Marine equipment and supplies to forces around the world

Gull Park/Air Monitoring Station

● Home to colonies of migratory birds where hunting is prohibited

● Relocated trees from former Navy property

● Port monitors protected species here and throughout the harbor

● Peregrine falcons, least terns, black-crowned night herons

After passing Gull Park, boat will speed up and head back to the departing dock

On The Way Back

● Open it up to trivia

● Take questions from guests

● Pass out parking validations

● Remind participants about social media channels and urge them to take survey being emailed to them

Quick Port Facts

The Port of Long Beach is:

● 2^nd-busiest U.S. container cargo seaport (LA is first, New York/New Jersey is third)

● Major gateway for U.S.- Asia trade

● Environmental leader in the port industry

● State-owned harbor district; governed under state Tidelands Trust

● Landlord port structure; terminals leased to private operators

● 113 years old; first shipment was lumber in June 1911

The Port moves:

● $200 billion in cargo annually

● 8.02 million container units in 2023

● Imports: ~3.80 million TEUs

● Exports: ~1.28 million TEUs

● Empties: ~2.93 million TEUs

● 9.38 million container units in 2021 (the Port’s busiest year ever, due to COVID cargo surge)

Economic and Community Contribution

Economic Impacts

● Supports 1 in 5 jobs in Long Beach

● 51,000 jobs in Long Beach

● 576,000 jobs in Southern California

● 2.6 million jobs in U.S.

● $46 billion a year in tax and revenue contributions

● $206 billion a year in direct and indirect business sales

● $22.7 million a year in contributions to city beach, marina, waterfront projects via Tidelands transfer

Community Grants Program

● The Community Grants Program invests in community projects outside the Harbor District to minimize port impacts related to air, noise, water and traffic.

● Launched in 2009, the Grants Program funds projects such as air filters in schools, asthma education programs, solar installations and new parks.

● There are three programs: Community Health, Community Infrastructure, and Facility Improvements.

● The Port has set aside more than $65 million, making it the largest voluntary port mitigation program in the country.

Contribution to Community

● Budgeted $3 million in community sponsorships for 2025

● The Port also offers Community Harbor Tours from May to Sept. each year. Tickets are on a lottery system and open up the third Monday of every month for tour dates for the following month

● The tours are Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings.

● The Port supports community events and participates in parades, safety fairs, movies on the beach, back-to-school fairs, among other events

Contribution to Education and Workforce

● Nearly $1.5 million in scholarships since 2014

● $300,000 in scholarships in 2024

● The Port of Long Beach Academy of Global Logistics career pathway at Cabrillo High School is a 4-year program in West Long Beach for 450+ students, first four-year class graduated in 2020

● The Port of Long Beach ACE (Advanced Manufacturing, Construction, and Engineering) at Jordan High School is a 4-year program in North Long Beach launched in 2021 also servicing 450+ students.

● The Port of Long Beach Maritime Center of Excellence at Long Beach City College offers courses focusing on skills training to help students looking to enter the industry or who want to gain new skills to move up in their career

● The Port’s Summer High School Internship Program is a six-week paid internship program for LBUSD service area juniors and seniors that want to learn more about the Port; interns are placed in various departments throughout the Port

● The Port also offers career day and Port 101 presentations, harbor tours, and teacher externships

● Our goal is to introduce students to our industry so they can learn about the careers the Port of Long Beach supports and become future leaders in the industry

Business Operations

Leading container import trading partners

● China, South Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan

Leading container export trading partners

● China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam

General Port Operations Facts

● 140 vessel operators

● About 2,000 ship calls a year

● Refrigerated containers carry fresh food, computer parts, cosmetics, medical supplies, more

● Refrigerated containers are called reefers

● Ships take 10-25 days to cross Pacific

● Largest container ship calling at the Port can carry as many as 24,000 TEUs. If those were filled with shoes, it would be enough to supply the entire California population of 38 million with almost 3 pairs of shoes each

● Container shipping introduced in 1956 by North Carolina trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean

● The first container ship arrived in Long Beach in 1962 (Sea-Land Services).

● TEU = Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit

Current Shipping Alliances (as of 2023)

● Ocean Alliance: COSCO, CMA-CGM, OOCL, Evergreen

● The Transport High Efficiency Alliance aka THE Alliance: ONE (aka the Ocean Network Express), Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, and Yang Ming.

● 2M: MSC, Maersk Line

Tools of the Trade

Gantry Cranes

● Port has 76 gantry cranes

● 280 feet tall to the top of the “boom” — equivalent of a 25-story building

● Can lift up to 65 tons at a time

● The biggest cranes can reach across ships 24 containers wide

● Skilled crane operators make 30 container lifts an hour; one every 2 minutes

Tugboats

● Operated by various companies that service both Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles

● Powerful tugs help big ships stop, turn corners and pull close to the docks

● Can move sideways and backwards, and spin like a top

Bunker Barges

● Mobile fueling stations for ships

● Ships can be refueled while being loaded/unloaded or parked inside breakwater

Rubber-tired gantry crane/Rail-mounted gantry crane, Transtainer/Automated Stacking Crane

● Mobile gantry crane used to ground or stack containers

Top handler/Front-end loader/Reach stacker/Side pick

● Used to move containers to and from stacks and chassis or bombcarts

Chassis and Bombcarts

● Chassis are trailer with wheels used to carry containers in or outside a terminal

● Bombcarts are used only in terminals for the transport and repositioning of cargo containers during off-loading of vessels.

Utility Tractor Rigs (UTR) or Yard Tractors

● Trucks with drivers used in moving trailers and containers short distances around port terminals

● Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are being utilized at Middle Harbor; they are driverless, electric, zero emissions and take containers to be sorted by automated stacking cranes

Commitment to the Environment

Green Port Policy

● The award-winning Green Port Policy, adopted in 2005, is the Port’s commitment to reducing harmful air emissions from port-related operations, improving water and soil quality in and around the harbor, protecting marine wildlife and implementing environmentally sustainable practices throughout the Port.

● Serves as a guide for decision making and established a framework for creating an environmentally conscious friendly Port operations and environmental stewardship.

Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP)

● The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles (collectively referred to as the “ports”) first adopted the landmark Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) in 2006, which was later updated in 2010.

● Adoption of the 2017 CAAP Update provides high-level guidance for accelerating progress toward a zero-emission future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy.

● The plan sets ambitious goals to transform the truck fleet to zero emissions by 2035 and terminal equipment to zero emissions by 2030

● The CAAP identifies strategies to reduce pollution from every source – ships, trucks, trains, harbor craft (such as tugs and workboats), and cargo-handling equipment (such as cranes and yard tractors).

● According to the Port’s 2022 Emissions Inventory, these strategies have resulted in current emission reductions totaling 91% for particulate matter, 63% for nitrogen oxides, and 97% for sulfur oxides when compared to 2005, which is considered the Port’s baseline year for air quality.

● Ships are the largest source of emissions at the Port. Strategies to reduce emissions from this source category include:

o Green Flag Program: A voluntary vessel speed reduction program rewarding vessel operators who slow down to 12 knots (~14 mph) or less within 40 nautical miles (46 regular miles) of the Port. The program has achieved over 90% participation and has resulted in substantial emissions reduction. This vessel speed reduction program also helps mitigate potential impacts to sensitive whale migration routes.

o Green Ship Incentive Program: An incentive-based program rewarding vessel operators for deploying today's greenest ships to the Port of Long Beach. In July 2021, the Port of Long Beach amended the Green Ship Incentive Program to further encourage NOx reductions from ships. Under the revised program, the Port provides the greatest incentive of any seaport for Tier III vessel visits.

o Shore Power: Shore power requires ships to plug into the electrical grid while loading and unloading cargo rather than idling their auxiliary engines. Shore power nearly eliminates emissions from ships at berth. It is now a California law, but the two ports led the way in requiring shore power through leases long before the regulation took effect.

o Low Sulfur Fuel Regulations: The Port complies with the California Air Resources Board Low-Sulfur Fuel regulation, which requires ships to use low-sulfur fuels within 24 nautical miles of the California baseline. This rule has been instrumental in reducing port-related sulfur oxides by 97 percent compared to 2005 levels.

o Green Shipping Corridors: The Port is participating in Green Shipping Corridor efforts with the ports of Shanghai and Singapore, shipping companies, and a network of cargo owners to create the world’s first transpacific green shipping corridors in order to decarbonize goods movement between ports in the U.S. and Asia.

● Trucks

o The Port’s Clean Trucks Program reduced air pollution from harbor trucks in 2012 by more than 90 percent when it first began in 2008. Between 2018 and 2023, the Clean Trucks Program required any new trucks entering the Port to be model year 2014 or newer. The 2017 CAAP update set a goal of zero emissions drayage operations by 2035.

o The San Pedro Bay Ports started collecting a rate of $10/TEU on containers entering and exiting the Ports on non-exempt trucks on April 1, 2022. This rate is formally known as the Clean Truck Fund Rate, and is an important component of the Port’s overall Clean Truck Program. The rate is not charged for containers entering and exiting on cleaner trucks, particularly zero emission trucks, and it is not charged to truck drivers. Cargo owners or their agents are responsible for paying the rate. Funds collected through the rate will go towards supporting deployment of zero emission trucks and the charging and fueling infrastructure needed to support them.

● The Port is home to the cleanest locomotive fleet in the country, Pacific Harbor Line (PHL), a “switching” line that helps assemble and disassemble trains destined for nearby rail yards.

● Thanks to existing state regulations and grant funding opportunities, the Port has one of the cleanest cargo-handling fleets in the country.

● The Technology Advancement Program, or TAP, was created by the two ports in 2007 to facilitate the development and demonstration of clean technologies for the port environment.

● It is a competitive funding program that relies heavily on partnerships with private industry and technology developers as well as strong relationships with regulatory agencies to support the commercialization of technologies and helps leverage funds.

● Since 2007, through these combined efforts, the Ports and their partners have invested well over $471 million in technology advancement.

● More information on the CAAP and its programs is found at cleanairactionplan.org.

Shore Power

● The Port currently has shore power at every container terminal, including the world’s only shore power-capable oil tanker facility.

● POLB pioneered shore power, with the first shore power-capable berth commissioned in 2008

● Estimated costs of retrofitting a ship to use shore power range from $500,000 to $1.5 million

● The Port has built more than $200 million in shore power infrastructure

● In 2020, the California Air Resources Board adopted a new regulation, which increases shore power requirements for the already regulated fleet as of January 1, 2023, and includes requirements for tanker and RoRo vessels for the first-time starting January 1, 2025.

A ship relying on shore power instead of diesel generators at berth is the equivalent of taking 42,000 cars off Southern California roads.

Zero-Emissions Efforts

● The Port has made significant investments in clean-equipment deployments at specific terminals and logistics centers, benefiting from local, state, and federal grant funds.

● These projects have allowed the Port to test near-zero and zero-emissions technologies on a larger operational scale and to test multiple types of equipment – cargo-handling equipment, trucks, harbor craft, and ships – at a single location, replicating the real world.

● In 2022, the Port of Long Beach was awarded $30.1 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the largest deployment of manually operated, zero emissions yard tractors with supporting infrastructure at Long Beach Container Terminal.

● Some notable demonstrations include the largest deployment of nine electric rubber-tired gantry (or RTG) cranes at SSA Marine at Pier J and the largest deployment of 33 human-operated electric yard tractors as SSA Marine Pier C.

● The Port has secured over $331 million in grant funds for environmental projects, of which $221 support tenant projects for zero-emissions cargo handling equipment, ship-to-shore power, zero-emissions locomotives, and infrastructure. The funds have been awarded to the Port from the California Air Resources Board, California Energy Commission, California State Transportation Agency, U.S. Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Water Resources Action Plan (WRAP)

● Collaborative, scientific effort to promote healthy water and sediment quality in the harbor

● Adopted jointly with the Port of Los Angeles in 2009

● Focused on control measures aimed at fulfilling each port’s land-side, in-water, sediment, and watershed-based sources of pollution.

● Part of the Nearshore Watershed Management Program with the City of Long Beach. The Nearshore WMP guides the ports’ efforts in managing water quality in the Port, including stormwater runoff quality and receiving water quality.

● Port staff inspect all Port facilities to ensure appropriate best management practices (BMPs) are in place to address stormwater runoff pollutants.

● All development/redevelopment within the Port is required to follow the Port’s established stormwater design manual, ensuring appropriate stormwater BMPs are installed as part of these developments.

● By 2030, all POLB outfalls with be retrofitted with full trash capture devices.

Wildlife

● A joint Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles biological survey conducted in 2018 and released in 2021 identified the highest recorded diversity of the four previous San Pedro Bay Harbor-wide biological studies, the first of which was conducted in 2000. In total, more than 1,000 species of plants or animals were observed, including 104 species of fish, 87 species of birds and 5 species of marine mammals.

● Port monitors fish and invertebrate species, bird and marine mammal species, water quality parameters, sensitive marine plants and macroalgae, non-native species, and other healthy wildlife indicators.

● Kelp and eelgrass beds continue to grow and thrive in harbor waters, indicating healthy water and sediment quality and a diverse marine environment.

● Port participates in wetland restoration projects within the City of Long Beach to offset loss of marine habitat resulting from Port development (e.g., Bolsa Chica Wetlands and the Colorado Lagoon).

● The average number of birds in the harbor has nearly tripled since the 1970s, thanks to the Port’s wildlife conservation efforts and water quality programs.

● Species sensitive to pollution continue to become more abundant in the ports complex, indicating the continued improvement of water and sediment quality in the harbor as well as the success of local and regional regulatory programs.

● Continual refinement of sampling methods and inclusion of sampling in new habitats, such as concrete pilings, riprap, and kelp beds, resulted in the highest biological diversity of fish and invertebrates observed to date in any biological survey.

● Greater species diversity was observed at shallow water habitats, further emphasizing the high quality of these created habitat areas.

● Nine species of fish typically associated with reef habitat were catalogued for the first time as part of the biological surveying program, including garibaldi, sheephead, horn shark, and moray eel.

● New survey methods on riprap documented the presence of pink, green and the endanged white abalone in the ports complex for the first time. Approximately half were mature adults, suggesting that populations have likely been present for decades and actively recruit to these habitats.

● The next survey is now complete, with collection and observations having occurred over three seasons in 2023. Data management is underway, and findings will be available to the public in early 2025.

Rail

● Port investing $1.3 billion in expanding its on-dock rail infrastructure over the next 10 years

● With on-dock rail, cargo is loaded and unloaded to and from trains at terminals

● Five of six container terminals at Port have on-dock rail

● Each 10,000-foot-long train eliminates as many as 750 truck trips

● About 25 percent of cargo currently loaded on-dock

● Key Port projects will expand use of on-dock rail to 35 percent, and beyond

● Trains take 5-6 days to Chicago; 7-8 days to New York

POLB had the first on-dock rail facility for cargo in all of California, beginning in the mid-1980s (at ITS/Pier G)

Security Efforts

● A state-of-the-art network of high-definition video, radar, other surveillance and corresponding analytic processes to monitor and evaluate all activity in the Harbor District

● “Virtual Port” created by POLB – enhances domain awareness

● POLB shares this information with regional security partners and a highly trained and dedicated maritime security team that delivers 24/7 public safety services, traffic management and comprehensive emergency response throughout the 11.9-square-mile Port complex.

● A coordinated, Port-funded team of first responders comprising Port Harbor Patrol, Long Beach

Police Department and Long Beach Fire Department personnel who provide safety, security and critical infrastructure protection.

· The Joint Command and Control Center is backstopped by off-site, guarded, back-up facilities.

· We also provide the trucking community, marine terminals, ocean carriers and other stakeholders with operational information via a real-time communications system.

• We conduct round-the-clock land and waterside patrols ensuring resiliency of cargo operations and

safety of Port facilities.

● Port security starts overseas; U.S. Customs agents screen all cargo for risk factors and physically inspect if necessary

● All containers exiting Port terminals are first inspected by radiation monitors

● U.S. Coast Guard teams can board any vessel for any reason, with inspectors and bomb/drug sniffing dogs

· Assets by the Numbers

o 65 Harbor Patrol Officers

o 35 Long Beach Police Department Officers

o More Than 800 Security-Networked Cameras

o Traffic Management For 10,000 Trucks Per Day

o 7 Patrol Vessels

o 2 State-of-the-art Fireboats

o 40 Miles of Underground Fiber Optic Cable

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Answers to common questions

● Dockworkers at the Port are members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

● One container ship may require more than 300 longshore workers to unload and load

● Most of the Port is built on landfill; all land south of Ocean Blvd. is landfill