Officials of the Port of Long Beach in California, the nation’s second-busiest seaport, on Aug. 20 marked substantial completion of what they say is the most sustainable container terminal in North America and one of the most technologically sophisticated in the world.
在中间港的“零排放”长滩集装箱码头，港口执行主任马里奥CORDERO间接解决recent media reports pointing to regional pollution caused由它和洛杉矶港口。
“There has been a lot of media discussion about pollution in this region,” said Cordero at the press conference. “Today, the Port of Long Beach has done something about it.”
巨大的终端具有首次使用在美国端口的自动导向车辆。被沥青中的转发器引导，电池供电的车辆将容器从船舶运输到存储区域，并可以为自己充电。
Phase 1 was completed in April 2016 with 151 acres, allowing private terminal operator LBCT Inc. to begin operations. Phase 2 was put into operation in October 2017, expanding the facility to 191 acres. The third phase concluded in July, expanding the terminal to 300 acres with a completed container yard, on-dock rail yard, terminal administration building and a 4,200-ft-long wharf. In a separate component, the North Gate Expansion is expected to complete by 2025, expanding the terminal to 303 acres.
The $1.5-billion project is the main feature of the decade-long中间港重建计划, which launched in 2011 and involved dredging wider and deeper channels, wharf construction, backlands development, shore-to-ship power, expansion of on-dock railyard facilities, and a 4,200-ft concrete pile-supported wharf with three deepwater berths that support 18 shore-to-ship gantry cranes.
Anthony Otto，LBCT Inc.的CEO表示，扩张将终端容量增加了100万吨当量（TEUS）至350万英镑，达到350万英镑。Teus是典型的运输集装箱，送船。
“Most important is that Long Beach Container Terminal is the first near-zero emissions terminal in North America,” he said. “The new model established here … proves that the industry can [provide services] in a more sustainable way.”
洛杉矶的洛杉矶时报介绍了激励卡车司机缺乏进展，以用更清洁的模型取代柴油卡车。港口官员强调终端将促进快速的卡车周转时间，减少排放。此外，港口计划将码头铁路容量扩展为11％至35％，进一步降低卡车依赖。根据港口的说法，一个双层列车是相当于75卡车。
2023年建筑的870万美元，171英亩的铁路设施，将是一个全方位服务的暂存区，用于储存，分类和装配火车长达10,000英尺长。预计第一届到达，出发和储存轨道预计将在2024年进行。额外的曲目是由于2030年在线上网，并且整个项目计划于2032年完成。
Engineers' "Disneyland"
随着从铁路到码头和疏浚的一切，到建筑物，太阳能汽车港口和变电站，中间港重新开发“就像工程师的迪斯尼乐园一样，”工程设计港主任约翰春说。“我们可以电枢的一切，我们有。”
在10年内，建设必须与现有的终端运营共存，而工程师则需要关注快速发展的趋势。“在码头设计和2006年以来的总体规划过程中，船舶的设计显着变化，”项目管理总监Thomas Baldwin说。“它始于8,000 - TEU的能力。在几年的几年里，我们正在谈论18,000个Teus。”需要处理自动车辆的铺路系统，当装载时可以重达60吨。
此外，对高级计划经理Monique Lebrun表示，对起重机容量的需求变得更大，该工程师也必须融入设计中。She notes that the terminal, with an ultimate capacity of 3.5 million annual TEUs, would be the sixth busiest port in the U.S. "It has the largest and most advanced ship-to-shore cranes in the world. Everything had to get larger," she says. Wharf design, which already is challenging because of seismic considerations, included octagonal concrete piles 125 to 135 ft long to handle the capacity.
该工作需要拆除木材桩支撑的旧码头，由新型4,200英尺长的码头取代。“我们试图尽可能多地提取这些桩，”鲍德温说。有时它们会扣除或创造空隙。用垃圾填埋场解决现有油田业务率的沉降，并通过加水来补偿油萃取器。
The new intermodal rail yard includes 70,000 track ft. "There are 12 tracks, and each is almost a mile long," says Baldwin. "There are four storage tracks, and eight working tracks. Five dual cantilevered gantry cranes with room for a sixth. It's one of most modern railyards ever built, with 1.1 million-TEU capacity."
