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California Bridges
FACTS:
Annual
Container Volume:
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3.5 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), fiscal
year 1999
Employment:
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259,000 jobs in Southern California, one out of every
24 jobs
Waterfront:
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35 miles
Top
Trading Partners lastest figures from 1997
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Japan ($20.9 billion)
China ($18.9 billion)
Taiwan ($6.2 billion)
South Korea ($2.4 billion)
Ecuador ($454 million)
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The Port of Los Angeles is an independent, self-supporting
department of the City of Los Angeles, California. The Port is under the
control of a five-member Board of Harbor Commissioners appointed by the
Mayor and approved by the City Council and is administered by an executive
director.
Multimodal Capabilities - Port
of Los Angeles assumes a variety of roles to serve its myriad of interests
and the expeditious movement of cargo has always been the Port's primary
goal. Achieving this requires enormous cooperation and dedication
from all four transportation sectors -- sea, rail, road and air.
Sea: The Port features marine terminals operated
by many of the foremost shipping lines and stevedoring companies in the
world. Some 80 carriers provide the backbone for the Port's maritime operations,
and have established the port as key relay center for cargo transported
to and from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Australia and all points in between.
The Port maintains world-class container, automobile, dry bulk, liquid
bulk, neobulk/ breakbulk and omni terminals for every cargo description.
Rail: In 1869, the San Pedro Railroad introduced
service on a single 21 mile-long stretch of track between the city and
the harbor, ushering in the intermodal era. Today, two Class I railroads
-- Union Pacific and Burlington Northern - Santa Fe -- provide destinations
across America by interchanging directly with other US, Mexican and Canadian
railroads.
Photo © Debbie Stock
The intermodal train traffic network at
the Port has been carefully planned and designed to merge and funnel onto
the Alameda Corridor, a $2.4 billion, 20-mile-long cargo expressway that
will be completed in early 2002. The Centralized Traffic Control
(CTC) System, which is operated by Pacific Harbor Lines for the ports of
Los Angeles and Long Beach, manages all rail dispatching and switching functions to govern inbound and outbound train movements
with the highest levels of efficiency and safety. All of the Port's existing
on-dock railyards, as well as the future Pier 400 facility, are linked
to the CTC System.
ICTF: For more than a decade, the Intermodal Container
Transfer Facility (ICTF), located four miles from the harbor area, has
served the Port and its customers. Opened in 1986, the ICTF is used by
most shipping lines calling at the Port. The facility provides for the
rapid transfer of import and export container traffic from the Port's marine
terminals to transcontinental doublestack trains.
The ICTF's ability to handle the enormous container
volume moving through the Port far exceed 1986 expectations, the rapid
growth in global trade and its pursuant demands dictate additional development.
ICTF Facts at a Glance: 146 acres 16-lane
truck gate handling up to 230 containers per hour Handling capacity
of 600,000 containers per year Computerized tracking of containers
and chassis On-site US Customs office Five 5200-foot working rail tracks,
each accommodating 16 five-platform doublestack 20-TEU railers, as well
as two passing tracks 1600 chassis bays, including 200 with reefer
plugs
TICTF: The Terminal Island Container Transfer Facility
(TICTF) provides rail connections to existing container terminals on Terminal
Island. This 47-acre facility allows cargo containers to be unloaded from
ships and placed directly on railcars for immediate national and international
distribution.
-Information supplied by Port of Los Angeles at
portla.net
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