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TTSI) is replacing its entire diesel trucking fleet with near-zero emission natural gas trucks, which it plans to fuel with carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG). In any given month, 13,000 to 14,000 trucks call at the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles, emitting roughly 2,600 tons per year of smog-causing nitrogen-oxide emissions.
The Port of LongBeach has cut diesel particulates by 81% since 2005, according to its 2012 Emissions Inventory. In addition to the drop in diesel emissions, smog-forming nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides have been cut 54% and 88% respectively. Greenhouse gases were lowered by 24%.
The Port of LongBeach received a $30.1-million The project will bring approximately 60 electric, human-operated yard tractors to LongBeach Container Terminal (LBCT). Aerial photo of LongBeach Container Terminal with two Cosco vessels at berth. The Port of LongBeach announced Friday it will receive a $30.1
The LongBeach Board of Harbor Commissioners earlier this month approved changes centered around incorporating the international Environmental Ship Index (ESI) into the Port’s Green Ship Incentive Program, which began in 2012. More than $1.7 million in incentives were paid to participants in 2020. Low-NO x natural gas trucks.
A plug-in parallel hybrid electric terminal tractor used to move shipping containers and cargo within the port will be tested at a Port of LongBeach shipping terminal. The equipment will be tested at SSA Container Terminal on Pier A at the Port of LongBeach for 3 months. Andra Rogers. Mobile, Ala.,
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board voted last Friday to approve funding for 483 natural gas-fueled (liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG)) trucks to replace old diesel trucks serving the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles.
The Port of LongBeach has achieved clean air records in its latest study of air pollution emissions, including an 88% reduction in diesel particulate matter. With the opening of LongBeach Container Terminal, 11% of the Port’s fleet of cargo-handling equipment is zero-emissions.
Ecology, a transportation and logistics company in California, has switched its fleet of more than 600 trucks to run on Neste MY Renewable Diesel and is reporting cleaner fuel filters, fewer maintenance problems and reductions in tailpipe emissions. Neste MY Renewable Diesel reduced climate emissions by 8.3
Six trucking firms operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach are deploying trucks powered by Cummins Westport (CWI) near-zero ISX12N engines ( earlier post ), and fueled with Clean Energy Fuels Corp.’s The Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach provided funding for two additional near-zero trucks.
The new fueling station is designed to support the recent addition of 56 new CNG-powered collection trucks that serve customers throughout greater LongBeach, California. The new fueling station is Republic’s second alternative fuels facility in LongBeach.
million in Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grants to public and private partners in California. The funds will be used to retrofit and replace old, polluting diesel vehicles and equipment, including school buses, heavy-duty trucks, tractors and port equipment. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $9.6
UrbanX Renewables Group of LongBeach, CA, executed a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd—an essential step for building the state’s first facility producing ultra-low carbon renewable diesel. It can also yield a prime sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). UrbanX process flow.
Shipping company Maersk Line and the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach are partnering to measure the environmental benefits of a $125-million upgrade for 12 Maersk container ships. The ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach will split the $1 million cost under their joint Technology Advancement Program (TAP).
LongBeach Transit (LBT) recently received a $600,000 grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Near Zero Incentive Program for the purchase of 40 Cummins “near-zero” compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Earlier post.)
Renewable Energy Group launched REG Ultra Clean Diesel, at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in LongBeach. REG Ultra Clean Diesel, among the lowest emission diesel fuels on the market today, is a patent-pending fuel made of a proprietary blend of renewable diesel and biodiesel.
near the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach. One battery-electric truck, a clean natural-gas hybrid-electric truck and a diesel-hybrid truck are now driving on a one-mile catenary system on the north- and south-bound lanes of South Alameda Street from East Lomita Boulevard to the Dominguez Channel in Carson. Earlier post.).
The rule requires container, passenger and refrigerated cargo ships to reduce emissions while docked at California’s busiest ports, including Los Angeles, LongBeach, Oakland, Hueneme, San Francisco and San Diego. CARB’s investigation revealed that from 2017 to 2018, Mitsui O.S.K.
The Hyzon 100 kW fuel cell truck that Airgas will pilot was on display at the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo at the LongBeach Convention Center. Hyzon vehicles offer similar payloads, performance, and refueling time to diesel.
Redeem enables at least 70 percent reduction in carbon emissions when displacing diesel or gasoline, according to California Air Resources Board (CARB) estimates. The City of LongBeach has entered into a new two-year contract to fuel 77 vehicles with an expected 225,000 GGEs of Redeem, including its 35 LNG refuse trucks.
Stäubli Electrical Connectors, a leading manufacturer of electrical connector solutions, has signed an agreement with SSA Marine to provide automatic charging stations for 33 terminal tractors at the Port of LongBeach. This project will create the largest automated electric vehicle charging program of any port in the United States.
The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update , ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex.
Currently being tested in Germany, pilot projects are already being planned for the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach to connect to cargo centers. Essentially, all that is needed is a hybrid diesel electric freight truck with built-in technology and software to connect to overhead electrified wires.
New York’s State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that more than $24 million is now available to replace diesel-powered transit buses with new all-electric transit buses. As part of the state’s $127.7-million As part of the state’s $127.7-million
km) stretch of highway after installing a catenary system for electric and hybrid trucks in the vicinity of the largest US ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach. On normal roads without overhead lines the vehicles make use of a hybrid system which can be operated alternatively with diesel, compressed natural gas or via a battery.
Once fully implemented, the updated regulation will deliver a 90% reduction in pollution from an expected additional 2,300 vessel visits per year, and result in a 55% reduction in potential cancer risk for communities near the Ports of Los Angeles, LongBeach, and Richmond.
A study of a hybrid tugboat, funded by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and conducted by UC Riverside, found that when compared with a conventional diesel-powered version, a hybrid tugboat can reduce emissions of PM 2.5 Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach in January 2009.
Foss Maritime Company, builder and operator of a hybrid tugboat ( earlier post ), will add a second hybrid tug, a retrofit, to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of LongBeach. Richard Cameron, Director of Environmental Planning at the Port of LongBeach. More than 1.2
Diesel engines are designed to optimally perform at or near their full load design point. Our system provides operators with the flexibility of a diesel electric system and the simplicity of a conventional system, without the cost or footprint of a traditional full diesel electric installation. Resources.
on Adopt-a-Port, an initiative that provides truck operators serving the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable natural gas (RNG) to reduce emissions. Chevron is partnering with California natural gas retailer Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
The environmental impact of replacing 143 million gallons of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent of reducing 745,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—also equal to planting 12 million trees, or removing 158,000 cars off the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, the company said.
The OGV was modeled on two West Coast routes, one from Los Angeles/LongBeach (LA/LB) to Shanghai, China, and the other from LA/LB to Honolulu, HI. When comparing emissions produced using natural gas or traditional diesel fuel, results were mixed as to which would produce the fewest emissions.
The Air Resources Board has selected four projects to demonstrate advanced clean engine technologies that reduce smog-forming and diesel soot emissions. Smog abatement, vehicle and vessel registration fees pay for these programs.
Toyota and Kenworth will deploy a total of 10 trucks as part of the Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities Project (ZANZEFF) ( earlier post ), hauling cargo received at the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach, throughout the LA Basin. The performance of the 10 Kenworth Class 8 trucks being developed under this program?the
Operating almost exclusively in disadvantaged communities, the zero-emission trucks will replace the equivalent of more than 690,000 diesel-gallons annually while helping to accelerate commercialization of heavy-duty battery-electric vehicles across the market.
plans to expand its existing network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond its current two LNG stations located at the Los Angeles/LongBeach ports complex. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy President and CEO.
I-710 is a major north-south interstate freeway connecting the city of LongBeach to central Los Angeles. The I-710 Corridor has high levels of health risks related to high levels of diesel particulate emissions, traffic congestion, high truck volumes, high accident rates, and many design features in need of modernization.
Siemens’ eHighway concept for the electrification of road-freight traffic has three core components: Diesel-electric hybrid technology. Wherever there is no overhead line, the eHighway HGVs automatically switch over to their diesel-hybrid drive system. The eHighway. Power supply via catenary lines and regenerative braking.
In November 2010, the MSC Aniello, owned by the Mediterranean Shipping Company, and the vessel Wieniawski, owned by the Chipolbrok Shipping Company, both used bunker fuel well within the 24-mile limit from the coast prior to docking at the Port of LongBeach.
The sale includes all of Delek’s membership interests in AltAir Paramount, LLC which operates a 3,000 barrel per day renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel facility, Delek’s idled Paramount refinery, and associated pipelines and storage tanks. We continue to evaluate options for our LongBeach and Bakersfield assets.
FuelCell Energy and Toyota Motor North America announced the completion of the first-of-its-kind “Tri-gen system” at Toyota’s Port of LongBeach operations. The Tri-gen system, owned and operated by FuelCell Energy, produces renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and water from directed biogas. Tri-gen produces 2.3-megawatts
acre site adjacent to the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles. The Clean Energy station is located on property leased from the Port of LongBeach at Anaheim and I streets. Clean Energy Fuels has opened the world’s largest natural gas truck fueling station on a 2.9-acre Andrew Littlefair, Clean Energy President and CEO.
Gas and diesel yard tractors are out, and battery-electric models at California’s Port of LongBeach container terminal are in. more… The post The US’s second-busiest port debuts electric yard tractors and hands-free chargers appeared first on Electrek.
The conventional diesel-powered TJ 9000 is a single-axle yard jockey truck with a GCWR of up to 242,000 lbs. Conventional diesel-engined Capacity TJ9000. The San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, encompassing the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach, mandates that all cargo handling equipment be zero-emission by 2030.
Vision designed the Tyrano to replace short haul diesel trucks operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach. Tyrano is to be more powerful and less expensive to operate than current diesel or natural gas trucks and will exempt the truckers from the $70/container port tariff. Vision Industries Corp. ’s
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