How the Port of Los Angeles Is Moving Cargo—and Cleaning Up Its Act

From furniture to auto parts to electronics, roughly 40 percent of imported goods enter the U.S. through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Located in San Pedro, the L.A. operation is the nation’s busiest port by container volume, and 144,000 jobs in the city are connected to it in some way. All that cargo comes at a cost, though: The two-port complex remains the largest stationary source of air pollution in the region. Here’s how the Port of Los Angeles works while working on mitigating its environmental impact. The Cargo The colorful “intermodal containers” revolutionized the freight industry when they were invented in 1956. The steel boxes come in standard sizes (the most common are 8 feet wide, 81⁄2 feet tall, and either…View Original Post

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