It’s been four years, a 20 percent increase in cargo and nearly a dozen major air pollution studies since any significant improvements were made to Port of Long Beach waterfront properties, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports.
Now, after a long pause to address serious air quality, noise and traffic concerns, port authorities are quietly preparing to launch their first new marine terminal project since 2004.
That year, a planned expansion of Pier J on the port’s outer harbor turned into a political debacle that not only doomed the project, but led to groundbreaking revisions in the way port authorities and their shipper clients operate in the nation’s busiest seaport.