Dive Brief:
- The Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles agreed this month to expand zero-emission adoption, which included dedicating $40 million for regional electric-truck charging infrastructure.
- The ports also moved to advance a zero-emission truck financial incentives program to encourage the transition toward those vehicles. Another measure, which affects ships, will also facilitate a new scoring system and efforts to promote air emission reductions.
- “This next phase of the Cooperative Agreement builds on our success by focusing on the infrastructure and incentives that will accelerate the transition to zero-emission goods movement,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said in a news release.
Dive Insight:
The $20 million investments from the ports will go to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, a regional regulatory agency, to develop future projects.
Each port is sending the money to the air quality management district, which is slated to oversee the funding.
“As we prepare to handle 20 million TEUs by 2050, we are building the Port of the Future — a 100% zero-emissions port,” Port of Long Beach CEO Noel Hacegaba said in a news release. “This new set of clean-air strategies strengthens our commitment, accelerates the zero-emissions transition and ensures cleaner air across the South Coast Air Basin.”
The ports plan to use money from $10 twenty-foot equivalent unit fees that have collectively brought in hundreds of millions of dollars since beginning their Clean Truck Fund programs in April 2022.
The CTF generated $155.7 million for the Port of Long Beach, the port announced in a July 31 update. The Port of Los Angeles fund collected approximately $123 million as of early 2025, the port announced that May, projecting $120 million more would be collected over the following three years.
The Port of Los Angeles, in its May 2025 update, noted how it has spent most of that money collected, covering projects such as vouchers for drayage trucks and charging projects.
