Los Angeles port
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| founding | December 9, 1907 | ||
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Coordinates - latitude - longitude |
33 ° 42'39 "N 118 ° 14'59" W. |
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Area - Total - Land - Water |
30.352 km² 16.997 km² 13.355 km² |
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| Available berths | 270 | ||
| Ship arrivals | 2,467 (tax year 2008) | ||
| Annual container - envelope |
8.85 million TEU (tax year 2016) |
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| Annual freight tonnage |
170.0 million tons (tax year 2008) | ||
| Value of the converted battered cargo |
$ 148.5 billion (calendar year 2004) | ||
| Passenger shipping volume |
1.19 million passengers (tax year 2008) | ||
| Total operating income |
$ 426.3 million (tax year 2008) | ||
| Net profit | $ 139.2 million (tax year 2008) |
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| Port Commission | |||
| President Vice President |
S. David Freeman Jerilyn López Mendoza |
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| Commissioners |
Kaylynn L. Kim Douglas P. Krause Joseph R. Radisich |
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| Managing Director ( Executive Director ) | Geraldine Knatz | ||
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Location in Los Angeles |
The Port of Los Angeles ( English Port of Los Angeles , Los Angeles Harbor or Worldport LA ) is located on San Pedro Bay , about 30 kilometers south of downtown Los Angeles . The port complex occupies 30 km². Adjacent is the separate port of Long Beach . Other neighboring communities are Lomita , Carson and Rancho Palos Verdes . The port of Los Angeles, founded on December 9, 1907 by the creation of a Board of Harbor Commissioners, is the largest container port in North America , ahead of the port of New York . A total of over 16,000 people work in the port area.
history
The south-facing San Pedro Bay was originally a flat mudflat , too soft to be able to build a quay . Arriving ships had two options: to anchor far off the coast and have their goods and passengers transported to the beach by smaller boats, or to get stranded. This uncomfortable situation is described in Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , who visited San Pedro Bay as a seaman in 1834. In 1871 things were greatly improved when Phineas Banning dug the Wilmington Canal to a depth of 10 feet. As a result, the port handled 50,000 tons of ship freight annually. Banning owned a trucking business with which he connected San Pedro with Salt Lake City and Yuma ; In 1868 he built the first railroad in the area, connecting San Pedro Bay with Los Angeles.
After Banning's death in 1885, his sons continued to promote the port in their own interest, where 500,000 tons of freight were already handled that year. The Southern Pacific Railroad and Collis P. Huntington, on the other hand, wanted to create the port of Los Angeles in Santa Monica and built the Long Wharf there in 1893. But Harrison Gray Otis , editor of the Los Angeles Times , and Senator Stephen M. White , urged the federal government to support the San Pedro project. The disputes were settled in 1897 when the San Pedro Project was approved by a commission headed by Rear Admiral John C. Walker. With the support of the US government, construction of a pier began in 1899 , and in 1906 the area and a narrow corridor to the city center were connected to Los Angeles. The creation of a port commission to manage the port district by the Los Angeles City Council in December 1907 is considered the port's founding date.
During the 1932 Summer Olympics , the port was used as a venue for the sailing competitions .
Port district
The port district is a separate district of the city of Los Angeles. The port is controlled by a five-member Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners , whose members are appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council.
jail
There is a prison island in the harbor entrance: The Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island .
envelope
In the tax year 2008 the container volume was 8.1 million TEU (20-foot container), in 2003 it was 6.7 million TEU. In terms of container volume, the Port of Los Angeles is the largest port in the United States and the 17th largest in the world - and if you include the neighboring port of Long Beach, it is the ninth largest. The largest main trading partners in 2004 were:
- China ($ 68.8 billion)
- Japan ($ 24.1 billion)
- Taiwan ($ 10.8 billion)
- Thailand ($ 6.7 billion)
- South Korea ($ 5.6 billion)
The main types of imported goods were, in descending order: furniture , clothing , toys and sporting goods , vehicles and vehicle parts , and electronic products.
Since 2002, the port has had a large backlog of ships to be unloaded at all times. Many analysts believe that the port's traffic has exceeded both its technical capacity and the capacity of local highways and rail systems . The chronic traffic jam at the port is beginning to affect the American economy and disrupt the just-in-time production of many companies.
On the rail side, the port is served by the Pacific Harbor Line (PHL). From there, the intermodal rail cars travel through the Alameda Corridor to Los Angeles.
Passenger ship travel
The Port of Los Angeles is the largest hub for passenger ship travel on the west coast of the United States ; from here over 1 million passengers are transported annually. The renovated World Cruise Center has been named the safest passenger shipping complex in the United States.
environment
Air pollution : container ships burn low quality gas oil in port. Diesel- powered trailers and locomotives idle while waiting to be loaded and unloaded. A study by the local agency for air quality regulation showed that air pollution in the port is responsible for 2,000 cancer cases per million, with 25 per million being the targeted upper limit. The 47 tons of nitrogen oxides generated daily by the port's vessels are almost equal to the amount emitted by the region's 350 largest factories and refineries . The former number is expected to increase by 70% by 2022.
Balancing growth and development with environmental concerns is a challenge that must be tackled every day in the port of Los Angeles. This is achieved through a variety of strategies that include the use of greener vehicles in and around the port, more efficient cargo handling, improved infrastructure, and biological, industrial and internal environmental programs.
In October 2002, the Ports Commission introduced a US $ 2.8 million program to improve air quality in the Port of Los Angeles, the Port of Los Angeles Clean Air Program (POLACAP), which aims to reduce air polluting emissions from vehicles and cargo handling equipment aims. In order to accelerate the implementation of the emission reduction through the use of new and more environmentally friendly facilities, the port is providing an additional US $ 52 million by 2008.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Port of Los Angeles: The Port of Los Angeles | Maritime. Retrieved February 9, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ www.portoflosangeles.org ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Welcome from the Executive Director. Accessed November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Cf. statistics of the American Association of Port Authorities for 2008: 2008 North American Port Container Traffic ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 168 kB)
- ↑ www.portoflosangeles.org ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Los Angeles Harbor Commission. Accessed November 20, 2011.
Competition venues for the 1932 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 33 ° 42 ′ 39 ″ N , 118 ° 14 ′ 59 ″ W.