Liquified Natural Gas Port Equipment
Demonstration Project
Location: California:
Port of Long Beach
EPA is providing a $75,000 grant to the Port
of Long Beach and Weststart/CALSTART, with $525,000 in matching
funds. This project will reduce diesel emissions at the port
by retrofitting three new yard hostlers at the Long Beach Container
Terminal’s Pier F facility with liquefied natural gas
engines and testing their relative power and effectiveness
for six months. Yard hostlers are small “off-road” trucks
used to ferry containers within a container cargo terminal.
This project is anticipated to reduce yard hostler emissions
by 63 percent for nitrogen oxide and 80 percent for particulate
matter.
