Citing backlog progress, Long Beach and LA ports again delay fines for idling containers
The fee, which charges companies for shipping containers that sit too long on the docks, has already been delayed numerous times.
The fee, which charges companies for shipping containers that sit too long on the docks, has already been delayed numerous times.
This is the first time in more than a decade the Port of Hueneme has borrowed a wharf typically used for Navy warships, a spokesman said.
With dozens of ships off the coast waiting to unload, hospitals say lifesaving medical supplies are more difficult to acquire or are taking much longer to be delivered.
Container ships will be required to anchor 150 miles offshore, rather than hugging the coast, as they wait for an available birth.
“There is a real need to increase the number of safe truck drivers in California to transport goods,” DMV Director Steve Gordon said.
City Manager Tom Modica issued the order Oct. 22 that lifted the city’s rule that limits containers to being stacked two high outside of the port area. There is no limit inside the port-related industrial zone.
The Port of Long Beach for the first time last year reached all of its 2023 emission-reduction goals outlined in the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, despite moving record cargo volumes.
Experts say the massive cargo congestion at the ports is causing air pollution spikes in neighborhoods that have long seen higher asthma and cancer rates, and more recently, higher COVID-19 death rates.
Beginning Nov. 1, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles announced ocean carriers will be charged for every container that lingers within the port complex—for nine days or more if being moved by truck, and three days or more if being moved by rail.
The city’s port authority does not own all of the land within the Port of Long Beach. But it appears port officials are looking to change that.