LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT), one of the world’s largest and most-advanced cargo handling facilities, continues its march to Net Zero by 2030 through significant on-site additions such as more electric ship-to-shore and rail cranes, a zero-emission terminal truck fleet, a second battery charging and exchange building as well as other achievements that are highlighted in a report announced today. LBCT continues to prove that the economy and the environment can go hand in hand.

LBCT’s 2024 Net Zero Progress Report outlines a range of environmental and community achievements to reduce emissions while increasing efficiencies, as well as the continuing public and private investments required to complete infrastructure transition and become the nation’s first net-zero terminal.

“LBCT remains an attractive choice for shippers because we have incorporated clean-energy technologies while continuing to have the fastest truck turn times, shortest vessel berth stays, and shortest rail dwell times of any terminal in San Pedro Bay,” said Anthony Otto, LBCT Chief Executive Officer. “We continue to meet or exceed emission regulations, promote safety and create climate resiliency because of the incredible collaborative effort among our workers, the community, our elected officials and our shipping customers and partners.”

Otto added that two other important elements to LBCT’s sustainability objectives are:

• Reinvesting in the greater Long Beach community with programs and projects that benefit youth with job training, assist the area’s underserved communities as well as improve the general environmental conditions of the region.
• Continued promotion of good-paying jobs with local labor.

“LBCT cultivates trust among labor partners, with a commitment to training and upskilling the workforce to prepare for a zero-emission future,” said Tommy Faavae, Business Development Manager of IBEW Local 11. “LBCT ensures that any new zero-emission terminal equipment funded in collaboration with the federal government is human-operated and built by American manufacturers.”

As a comprehensive Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) document, the Net Zero Progress Report details how LBCT is meeting or on its way to attain a range of emerging emission-reduction regulations as well as continue to make positive social impacts. LBCT’s substantial progress recently earned the company a 96% score from the leading international ESG ranking organization GRESB, placing it first among peer container ports.

LBCT’s more than $2.5 billion, 15-year effort to convert its cranes and cargo-handling vehicles to zero-emission electric has already resulted in an 86 percent reduction in greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions to date, while quadrupling LBCT’s cargo-handling capacity. Joe Lyou, President and CEO for Coalition for Clean Air, says “LBCT continues to use onshore power for docked ships, is beginning to welcome OOCL’s greener ships - the Bauhinia and the Sunflower - and aggressively continues to serve as a model for clean terminal operations in the San Pedro Bay port complex and beyond.”

In the near term, LBCT’s Net Zero infrastructure transition plan will include additional clean-energy efforts such as more electric-charging stations, clean-power generation and storage, working with the Port of Long Beach to advance its Clean Air Action Plan and help influence other industries to de-carbonize operations.

LBCT’s Net Zero Action Plan and two progress reports can be found in the “About Us/Corporate Messages” tab of the company’s website.

About Long Beach Container Terminal. Founded in 1986, Long Beach Container Terminal does marine terminal operations and is the home of the advanced Middle Harbor Terminal facility. LBCT has three berths within Pier, E at the Port of Long Beach featuring 4200 feet of wharf line and the deepest dredged dockside of any U.S. Pacific Coast port. LBCT runs 18 ship-to-shore cranes, six intermodal rail cranes, 69 yard gantry cranes – all electrified – and 102 autonomous battery powered transport vehicles. More at: www.lbct.com.