JOC Staff | Oct 18, 2012 8:46AM EDT
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the Port of Long Beach a $1.34 million grant on Oct. 17 to deploy cleaner cargo-handling equipment at its container terminals.
The grant will retrofit 11 rubber-tired gantry cranes with diesel particulate filters or exhaust treatment technologies at two terminals, Piers A and J, operated by SSA Terminals; and will also allow the future Middle Harbor terminal at Pier F, operated by Long Beach Container Terminal, to pay for five yard tractors to run on electricity instead of diesel.
Total cost of the project is $3.98 million with terminal operators picking up $2.64 million of the bill.
