The Port of Los Angeles completed last month construction on a $22.7 million wharf restoration project.
The new concrete wharf, which measures 382 feet long by 62-feet wide, stretches along berths 177 to 182 on the Wilmington side of the port. The main tenant at the wharf is Pasha Stevedoring & Terminals, which handles steel cargo.
The restoration replaced about half of an 800-foot-long timber wharf that was originally built before World War II. The original wharf was heavily damaged in a 2014 fire that was ignited by a welding accident. Only the wharf structure was damaged, and the adjacent berths escaped any significant harm.
It took nearly a decade before the Board of Harbor Commissioners finally approved the wharf restoration project in 2023. Construction began two months later. The contractor team was a joint venture of Reyes Construction Inc. of Pomona and Larison Contracting Corp. of Long Beach.
‘Stark reminder’ to rebuild
Besides building the concrete wharf, the contractor team also repaired some slopes that eroded in the area and upgraded some bollards.
“The completion of this project on the heels of the catastrophic Eaton and Palisades fires is a stark reminder of the need to rebuild with long-term resiliency as a top priority,” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said in the project completion announcement.
The project allows terminal operator Pasha Stevedoring to continue shipping and receiving of steel products, including coils of sheet metal and wire rods, tubing, piping, rebar and other bulk material. Pasha’s terminal is a specialized 40-acre steel-handling facility with covered on-dock warehouses that comprise a 116,000 square-foot transit shed.
