{"id":376339,"date":"2026-06-26T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376339\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:27:13","slug":"long-beach-pushes-toward-worlds-first-zero-emission-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376339\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach pushes toward world&#8217;s first zero-emission port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Long Beach has approved $58.2 million to deploy six zero-emission and five cleaner harbour craft to replace older diesel engines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3e800ef2ea14b30d7d8246_393751b6-58f1-420c-9151-b2c996f6715a-1200w.jpeg\" data-filenames=\"393751b6-58f1-420c-9151-b2c996f6715a-600w.jpg,393751b6-58f1-420c-9151-b2c996f6715a-1200w.jpg\"\/>IMAGE: Aerial view of cargo containers in Long Beach port California. Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will also support the acquisition of 61 units of zero-emission, human-operated cargo-handling equipment and 21 chargers to power them. It will also advance one zero-emission locomotive.<\/p>\n<p>The latest round of funding builds on the port&#8217;s System-Wide Investment in Freight Transport (SWIFT) programme, the port authority said.<\/p>\n<p>The SWIFT programme is aimed at accelerating the transition to zero-emission operations while improving the reliability and efficiency of cargo movement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, the Port of Long Beach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engine.online\/news\/long-beach-offers-USD1-million-incentive-for-first-commercial-methanol-bunkering-7c05\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> a $1 million incentive for the first commercial-scale methanol bunkering operation at the port<\/p>\n<p>By Gautamee Hazarika <\/p>\n<p>Please get in touch with comments or additional info to news@engine.online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Port of Long Beach has approved $58.2 million to deploy six zero-emission and five cleaner harbour craft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-376339","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\/376339","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=376339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}