LA gets US$127m approval

The first project, worth US$71.5m, is for new administration building and state-of-the-art truck entrance and exit gates at TraPac’s Berths 136-139, along with a new yard operations building, truck scales and a pedestrian bridge. Other work includes infrastructure improvements at Berths 145-147.

The second US$55.7m contract involves building an elevated 4,100-foot roadway that links Harry Bridges Boulevard, Pier A Street and Fries Avenue to TraPac’s new entrance. It will separate truck from rail operations for safer and more efficient flow of traffic. The work on both projects is due to be completed by the summer of 2015.

Both projects are part of a US$365m expansion of the TraPac terminal due to be completed in 2016. In 2009, the Port, TraPac and its parent company, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), signed a 30-year lease that paved the way for the modernisation project that will increase terminal productivity, green operations and generate thousands of jobs throughout Southern California.