Major Shipper Goes Electric

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Rumor has it that Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster can be a tough negotiator, the Long Beach Post-Telegram reports.


Years behind the CEO’s desk at Southern California Edison, preceded by work in Sacramento as a Democratic Party lobbyist, have made the Brooklyn-born city boss a formidable dealmaker.


But Foster reportedly abandoned the tough talk last week in Tokyo while discussing trade and the environment with a boardroom full of Japanese shipping executives.


To the surprise of some, the shippers agreed to adopt an expensive – and some argue unnecessary – shoreside power scheme for cargo vessels calling at the Port of Long Beach.


Foster and several Port of L.B. execs, in Tokyo on a 12-day trade mission through Asia, were told that Japanese carrier “K-Line” – one of the world’s largest – would soon begin using electricity to power its diesel ships during layovers in Long Beach.



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