Longshore workers are expected to move about 12,500 cargo containers on and off the vessel before it leaves the Port of Long Beach on February 24th. The figure is two-and-a-half times the world-leading 5,000 containers
that Long Beach terminals move during the call of an average-size vessel. “Our PCT terminal is just one of our facilities able to accommodate these megaships,” Board of Harbour Commissioners President Lori Ann Guzmán said. “Preparing for still larger ships, our new LBCT (Long Beach Container Terminal) Middle Harbour terminal opens this spring.” The USD1.3 billion Middle
Harbour terminal will be the most technologically advanced in the Western Hemisphere.
As a nearly all-electric, near zero emissions terminal, Long Beach’s Middle Harbour facility is a green, highly productive model for the worldwide shipping industry. Once it is fully completed in 2020, Middle Harbour will be able to move 3.3 million TEUs a year, and handle 24,000-TEU ships. The project is part of an ongoing USD4 billion capital program to modernize facilities at the Port of Long Beach to bring long-term, environmentally sustainable growth. “The Port of Long Beach is the most direct route from Asia to U.S. markets,” said Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup. “We are strengthening our value proposition by working with all of our customers and stakeholders to optimise the speed and efficiency of our marine supply chain as we continue
building the Port of the Future.” CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest shipping company, was established in 1978 by founder and Chairman Jacques R. Saadé.
Based in Marseilles, France, the company transports 13 million container units each year with a fleet of 470 vessels to 400 ports across the globe.