Fleet of electric cranes begin operations at Port of Long Beach Terminal

The Port of Long Beach’s SSA Marine Pier J now utilises nine zero-emissions rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) canes to stack containers as part of a wider goal of a zero-emissions cargo handling fleet by 2030.

Port of Long Beach, the California Energy Commission (CEC) and Southern Calirfornia Edison are partnering on the project to put into daily service 25 human-operated vehicles that are zero- or near-zero emissions at three of the port’s marine terminals to test their performance.

Included within this was the retrofit of nine of SSA’s existing diesel-powered RTGs to run on electricity, with the last one having recently been completed.