California’s clean ports
Making waves with significant emissions reductions
Air Emissions Show Significant Reductions at San Pedro Bay Ports as a result of investments in cleaner equipment and technologies and operational changes to improve air quality in Southern California. In 2022, ports inventories revealed:
reduction in diesel particulate matter
90%
reduction for sulfur oxides
97%
reduction for nitrogen oxides
63%
San Pedro Bay Ports are the cleanest in North America.
Reductions were captured across all port sources, including ocean-going vessels, cargo handling equipment, and trucks.
The ports advance toward zero-emission
The ports are already heavily regulated by state and federal laws and are already working on the most aggressive path toward zero emissions operations in the nation.
“Today is a special day for California and for Los Angeles. The money we are receiving will help seed a robust green hydrogen market to assist in the pursuit of zero-emission operations. "
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
In a collaborative effort with the Mayors of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the San Pedro Bay ports received a $1.2 billion grant to create a hydrogen hub.
Gateways of opportunities for the Southern California region
Creating jobs, delivering consumer goods, and generating billions in economic activity.
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1 in 12 jobs in Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as 1 in 9 jobs in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura are connected to the Ports, and as many as three million jobs nationwide.
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PORT-RELATED TRADE SUPPORTS
51,000 jobs (about 1 in 5) in Long Beach
576,000 jobs (or 1 in 20) in the five-county Southern California region
2.6 million jobs throughout the U.S. are related to Long Beach-generated trade
REGIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS
$5 billion a year in U.S. Customs revenues from the Long Beach/Los Angeles ports
$46.6 billion a year in local, state and general federal tax revenues
$374 billion in direct and indirect business sales yearly
$126.8 billion in annual trade-related wages
Help protect the ports & supply chain
If SCAQMD’s Port ISR is imposed, the ongoing decline in market share of California’s ports will continue and cargo will be diverted from our ports.
The Port ISR will not only harm the ports, but the entire supply chain and result in job loss, economic decline, and increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
