Long Beach begins major terminal modernisation project

The Board of Harbor Commissioners has unanimously approved a US$123m dredging and wharf building contract as the starting point for the Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project at the Port of Long Beach.


The contract, one of the biggest to be awarded by the port, covers the first part of a US$1bn modernisation and consolidation of two ageing terminals into one state-of-the-art container terminal with twice the cargo capacity. The overall project is planned to take nine years. This first part, which includes building wharfs, dredging one slip and filling in another, is expected to start this spring and take 22 months.


According to the port, environmental technologies and efficiencies will allow the redeveloped terminal to move additional cargo and create thousands of new goods-movement jobs while cutting pollution in half.
(Source:http://www.container-mag.com)