Port of Long Beach: Transforming Terminal Infrastructure and the Push to Zero Emissions

The primary focus of this paper is to highlight overarching project delivery challenges experienced by the Port of Long Beach (Port) related to zero emission infrastructure, including lessons learned encountered across real-world projects, and how the Port and its partners with support from various grant funding agencies overcame these barriers. Examples of these challenges include, but are not limited to, designing infrastructure while the equipment is still under development, ensuring equipment has Underwriters Laboratory (UL)/Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) certifications, grappling with real estate constraints which limit project footprint, working through COVID-19 impacts to the supply chain and demonstration timeline, and delivering under stringent completion deadlines defined by grant funding. This paper will identify ways to mitigate these hurdles to the extent possible in future projects and will offer considerations for container terminal operators, utility providers, technology/equipment manufacturers, and grant funding agencies. Finally, this paper will share our vision for zero emission terminal infrastructure master plans.