Infrastructure News

China Shipping’s $85-million
L.A. terminal approved

The economy may be down, but a major container terminal project has been given the green light at the Port of Los Angeles.

Shanghai-based China Shipping Company will be allowed, after six years and multi-millions of dollars’ worth of legal and community opposition, to expand its cargo footprint at the port.The $85 million project will double the size of the terminal to 142 acres by 2030.

The China Shipping terminal will also have approximately 60 different environmental measures applied to its construction and operation, including the use of shore side Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) for all ships calling the terminal by 2011. In 2004, China Shipping was the first shipping line in the world to employ AMP technology at its L.A. facility.

“We’ve just approved what could very well be the cleanest and greenest port container terminal operation in the world,” said Los Angeles Harbor Commission President, S. David Freeman.

The port says China Shipping’s expanded terminal operations will facilitate more than 8,400 direct permanent and indirect jobs, and it will increase container terminal capacity to accommodate an annual throughput of 1.5 million TEUs. The facility footprint will be expanded to an additional 2,500 feet of wharves and be serviced by 10 post-Panamax cranes.

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