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Southern California Ports Plan for Zero-Emission Trucks

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The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have released a draft of a proposed 2017 Clean Air Action Plan Update, outlining a new set of aggressive near-term and long-term strategies to reduce air pollution from the ports.

The draft plan lays out how the ports plan to reach emissions targets that include the goal of transitioning to a zero-emission drayage fleet by 2035.

The draft 2017 CAAP sets new clean air goals focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

The plan carries over previous 2023 targets for cutting other primary pollutants aimed at reducing diesel particulate matter 77%, sulfur oxides 93%, and nitrogen oxides 59% below 2005 levels.

Preliminary analysis on implementing the 2017 CAAP estimate the costs at $7 to $14 billion.

Recent emissions inventories show that the two ports have already surpassed the 2023 diesel particulate matter and sulfur oxide reduction targets and are close to the NOx goal.

“These ports are going where no port has gone before,” said Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles executive director. “Based on what we've already accomplished to promote healthy, robust trade through our gateway, we're ready to make history again, looking at a new array of technologies and strategies to further lower port-related emissions in the decades ahead.”

The 2017 draft was drawn up using feedback from two years of dialogue with industry, environmental groups, regulatory agencies, and neighboring communities. The ports conducted small group meetings and large public workshops before detailing its goals, priorities and strategies for public review and comment.

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ATA Forecasts Steady Rise in Truck Tonnage Over Next Decade

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The American Trucking Associations has released its latest forecast for the next decade of freight transportation, projecting continued growth for freight transportation overall and for the trucking industry.

The ATA Freight Transportation Forecast 2017 projects freight volumes to grow by 2.8% in 2017 followed by 3.4% annual growth through 2023. After that point, the report expects growth to return to a more moderate 2.3%.

In 2017, ATA projects that 15.18 billion tons of freight will be moved by all modes of transportation, rising by 36.6% to 20.73 billion tons in the next 10 years.

“As the U.S. population grows and the economy increases with it, we will see continued gains in demand for freight transportation,” said Bob Costello, ATA chief economist.

ATA worked with IHS Global Insight on the report, with IHS providing the data and forecasts and ATA publishing the analysis.

The forecast covers all modes of transportation, not just trucking, which was important because in cases where trucking is not the primary mode of transportation it usually plays some sort of secondary transportation role, Costello said in a media conference call.

Trucking is projected to grow 33.6% over the forecast period. Overall, truck volumes will continue to rise over the forecast period and will remain the dominant freight mode, but its share of tonnage is expected to dip to 67.2% by 2028 with pipelines gaining the most share.

With an increase in freight tonnage, one of the challenges for the trucking industry is figuring out how to move all of the new freight.

“Over the forecast period, capacity shortfalls will develop,” the report said. “We are starting to see some selected tightness in freight handling capacity, enough to suggest that capacity expansion will be required if the modes are going to be able to handle anticipated growth.”

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