Port calls at Port of Long Beach to be emission-free by 2030

The Long Beach City Council passed a Ship It Zero resolution. Based on the resolution calls on top maritime importers to commit to making all port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex including the Port of Long Beach on 100% zero-emissions ships by 2030.

This resolution unites the nation’s largest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, in making the commitment of zero-emissions ocean shipping by 2030.

It also calls on the Port of Long Beach to establish greener international ocean shipping corridors, building off the recently announced Shanghai to Los Angeles and Long Beach corridor.

The resolution also requires support for legislation or administrative action to rapidly decarbonise the maritime shipping industry and to create zero-emission shipping corridors along the California coast, the West Coast of the United States, and across the trans-Pacific trade route.

As home to the largest port in the nation, Los Angeles County receives 40% of all containerised cargo imports to the United States coming through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, making the surrounding communities – which are primarily working-class Black and Brown communities – particularly vulnerable to deadly pollutants.