The MSRC, the Port of Los Angeles, and the Port of Long Beach are launching a new partnership to help clean up polluting trucks around the Ports. Each Port signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, on behalf of the MSRC, to enable the Ports to partner directly with the MSRC to provide funding assistance for eight sizable zero-emission truck charging infrastructure projects to support cleaner goods movement operations. MSRC Chair Larry McCallon testified at both the LA and Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners meetings to share the unique synergies and benefits gained by leveraging the MSRC’s extensive existing initiatives that have already identified critical EV truck charging opportunities throughout the South Coast region.
Each Port will contribute $12.5 million to support projects that will collectively install approximately 200 chargers for heavy-duty trucks at locations with ties to the Ports, including Wilmington, Rancho Dominguez, Rialto, Fontana, Commerce, as well as at the Port of Long Beach. This funding will come from the Ports’ respective Clean Truck Fund rates, which collect $10 for twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers and $20 for containers longer than 20 feet, and are designed to encourage the transition to a zero-emission drayage truck fleet by 2035. The MSRC will administer the funding on behalf of the Ports to implement these projects, which were identified through a Request for Information solicitation process that the MSRC initiated in 2022.
The agreements between the MSRC and Ports of LA and Long Beach will also allow for ongoing collaboration on other zero-emission projects, as all three agencies are committed to a zero-emission goods movement future.