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Los Angeles, CA - Industrial Supplies

The sprawling Port of Los Angeles is polluting bunker fuel idle at the docks
located on San Pedro Bay in Los Angeles, because most have no ability to utilize
CA, about 20 miles south of the city's shore-generated electricity. Diesel
downtown. Also called the Los Angeles trailer trucks and locomotives idle while
Harbor, it spreads over 7,500 acres of they sit and wait to be loaded and
both land and waterfront property. It is unloaded. An environmental regulatory
nearby the Port of Long Beach, and is the agency did a study that found that air
busiest port in the U.S., with more than pollution from the port is responsible
16,000 employees. for 2,000 cases of cancer per million
The port complex is an independent, people. The more than 45 tons of nitrogen
self-sufficient department of the city of oxides generated on a daily basis by port
Los Angeles. Oversight is provided by a vessels nearly matches the amount from
five-member board of Harbor Commissioners the 350 largest factories and refineries
that are appointed by the Los Angeles in the area. That amount is expected to
mayor and approved by the City Council, rise 70 percent by 2022.
and is administered by an executive Coping with these environmental issues is
director. a daily test for the port. Attempts have
It is also the largest cruise ship hub on been made to ameliorate the pollution
the West Coast and has three berths for problem with a variety of strategies that
ships, which carry more than 1 million include cleaner-burning vehicles and more
passengers on an annual basis. The cruise efficient cargo-handling.
center is posited to be the country's In addition, a 2.8 million dollar Clean
most secure cruise location. It has a Air Program initiative was initiated by
security patrolled long-term parking lot the board of Harbor Commissioners in
that has over 2,500 spaces. When cruise 2002, aimed at reducing polluting
ships are in dock, shuttles move emissions from vessels and cargo-handling
passengers and luggage between the gear. To hasten the implementation of
parking lot and the cruise ship. emission reductions through the use of
Regrettably, with the huge volume of new, cleaner-burning equipment, 52
business that the port does, air million dollars has been allocated
pollution remains a big issue. Large through 2008.
container ships running on highly




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