{"id":336263,"date":"2026-05-28T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:35:21","slug":"port-of-long-beach-signs-283m-us-dot-grant-agreement-for-pier-b-rail-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/336263\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach signs $283m US DOT grant agreement for Pier B rail expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/80565_screenshot_19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"122\"\/>The Port of Long Beach has signed a $283m grant agreement with the US Department of Transportation for the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, according to the Port of Long Beach. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agreement secures federal funding for a rail project designed to expand on-dock capacity, accelerate cargo movement, reduce congestion and cut local environmental impacts. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pier B is planned to more than double the existing rail yard from 82 acres to 171 acres and raise annual on-dock rail cargo handling capacity from 1.5m TEU to 4.7m TEU. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The facility is also planned to include a depot for fuelling and servicing up to 30 locomotives and a staging area for assembling trains up to 10,000 feet long. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US Department of Transportation has identified Pier B as a $1.5bn project, with the port receiving a $283m Mega grant and a $52.6m Port Infrastructure Development Program grant. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Port of Long Beach is a municipal seaport operated by the City of Long Beach, California, through the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy and transport infrastructure programmes in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Long Beach has signed a $283m grant agreement with the US Department of Transportation for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-336263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336263","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=336263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}