With a new CEO at the helm, facility aims to double its cargo capacity by 2050.<\/p>\n
THE PORT handled a record 9.8 million cargo containers in 2025 and hopes to deal with 20 million by 2050.<\/p>\n
(ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Despite a year of trade volatility and unprecedented tariffs, the Port of Long Beach handled a record amount of cargo in 2025 and expects growth to accelerate.<\/p>\n
Under the leadership of a new chief executive, Noel Hacegaba, the second-busiest port in the U.S. plans to invest to be ready to double the cargo it processes by 2050. That\u2019s also the year the port is hoping to achieve zero carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have 24 years to figure this out and ensure we can handle double our capacity,\u201d Hacegaba said.<\/p>\n
The forecast predicted the Port of Long Beach will handle the equivalent of 20 million containers in 2050, up from 9.8 million containers last year.<\/p>\n
Hacegaba, who joined the Port of Long Beach in 2010 and previously served as chief commercial officer before beginning his CEO role Jan. 1, said he is focused on upgrading the port\u2019s operations. The future of the port depends on investments in infrastructure and efficiency, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of what I\u2019m going to do as chief executive resembles what a head coach of a football team would do,\u201d Hacegaba said. \u201cI want us to move to a hurry-up offense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a new CEO at the helm, facility aims to double its cargo capacity by 2050. THE PORT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[68254,68251,68258,68249,68248,68257,131,133,132,30425,68252,68245,68250,68244,68256,68246,68255,68253,68247],"class_list":["post-133391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-android-magazine","tag-best-magazine","tag-digital-magazines","tag-free-magazine","tag-free-magazines","tag-ipad-magazine","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-magazine","tag-magazine-subscription","tag-magazines","tag-magazines-for-smartphones","tag-magzter","tag-online-digital-magazine","tag-online-magazine","tag-online-pdf-magazine","tag-pdf-for-smartphones","tag-pdf-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}