MSC increases its investments in Long Beach

According to Port Executive Director Christopher Lytle, the commitments by MSC and CMA CGM underscore the Port’s efforts to forge successful partnerships. “At the Port of Long Beach, we remain committed to our mission of ensuring that the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend upon our success stay here, and grow for future generations,” he said.

With potential challenges posed by ports in Canada and Mexico, as well as the expansion of the Panama Canal, Lytle said this is no time for the Port of Long Beach to become complacent.

Lytle outlined the Port’s ongoing 10-year, US$4.5bn rebuilding and modernisation programme that is bringing cleaner and more efficient facilities to the Port. In addition to the Port’s major waterfront improvements at Middle Harbour and Pier G, the Port and its partners including the California Department of Transportation, have embarked on a US$1bn project to replace the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge.