{"id":341565,"date":"2026-06-01T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341565\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:13:11","slug":"rail-news-long-beach-board-authorizes-283m-federal-grant-for-pier-b-rail-project-for-railroad-career-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341565\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail News – Long Beach board authorizes $283M federal grant for Pier B rail project. For Railroad Career Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The grant will help fund the ongoing Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility project.\u00a0
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The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners<\/a> has authorized a $283 million grant agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) to help fund the Port of Long Beach’s (POLB) ongoing $2.2 billion Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility project.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Funding from the grant, announced in 2023, comes from the National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega) program. Mega was established under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021\u00a0to support large, complex projects that would be difficult to fund by other means and which are likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility or safety benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The POLB has previously designated $1.28 billion<\/a> to develop the Pier B facility, about 40% of its $3.2 billion fiscal-years 2026-2035 capital improvement plan.<\/p>\n

Project construction began construction in 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2032. It will increase the existing Pier B rail yard from 82 acres to 171 acres, add a fueling and servicing area and an assembly and breakdown staging area. It will also connect the yard to the Alameda Corridor, which links the POLB and the Port of Los Angeles via the Pacific Harbor Line.<\/p>\n

POLB officials anticipate the project will more than triple the port’s\u00a0annual on-dock rail cargo capacity, from 1.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to 4.7 million TEUs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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