By Mark Edward Nero
The two most high-profile multi-year construction projects currently ongoing at the Port of Long Beach are poised to have significant amounts of progress complete by the end of 2015, the port’s chief executive said during the annual State of the Port address on Jan. 29.
One of the projects is the Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project, a ten-year redevelopment plan consisting of the combining of two aging shipping terminals, Pier E and Pier F, into one modern terminal for the purpose of improving cargo-movement efficiency and reduction of environmental hazards. Preliminary work on the project began in the spring of 2011 and in April 2012 Orient Overseas Container Line signed a 40-year, $4.6 billion lease with the port to operate the 300-acre terminal along with its subsidiary, Long Beach Container Terminal. LBCT has occupied Pier F since 1986.
“By summer (of 2015), we will reach a major milestone for this $1.3 billion project with completion of the first phase,” Slangerup said. “By fall, our partners OOCL and Long Beach Container Terminal can open Middle Harbor for business.”
Completion of Phase 1 is expected to increase overall container capacity at the port by 10 percent while at the same time reducing air emissions and ushering in an era of all-electric terminal operations, Slangerup said.
The project is expected to be complete by 2020. When both phases are complete, Middle Harbor will have the capacity to handle three million TEUs, which would increase the port’s overall container-moving capacity by 20 percent.
“If Middle Harbor was a standalone port, it would rank as the country’s fourth-busiest port,” Slangerup said. “It’s a massive thing.”
The other project updated was the construction of a replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge, a $1.3 billion project that intends to replace the existing 47-year-old bridge that traverses the port and Terminal Island, with a taller, wider – but still currently unnamed – bridge.
“Nearly a third of the bridge’s 351 piles have been constructed and the rest will be done this year,” he said. “The towers will rise more than 500 feet into the air, making the bridge the city’s tallest structure. And besides adding to the skyline, the new bridge will increase capacity by about one third, speeding travel for thousands of our daily commuters as well as improving conditions for trucks that today carry 15 percent of America’s imports.”
The bridge is expected to be completed between by mid-2018.
Showing posts with label Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Thursday, January 24, 2013
POLB Approves Middle Harbor Project Budget
After putting off a vote earlier this month in order to
study the overall project, Long Beach’s port commission has passed a budget for
the $1.2 billion Middle Harbor terminal renovation.
The approval came on a 4-0 vote during the commission’s Jan.
22 business meeting, with commissioner Rich Dines absent.
It was back during the board’s Jan. 7 meeting that the
members agreed to place the vote on hold pending further review of the project
by commissioners, stakeholders and the public. A workshop was conducted during
the Jan. 22 business meeting, prior to the approval vote.
The Middle Harbor redevelopment plan consists of the combining
of two aging shipping terminals, Pier E and Pier F, into one modern terminal
for the purpose of improving cargo movement efficiency and reducing
environmental hazards. The project upgrades wharves, water access and storage
areas, and adds a greatly expanded on-dock rail yard.
Despite the lack of final budget approval until this week,
work on the nine-year project began in the spring of 2011.
The project, which is expected to be complete by 2019, already
has a tenant lined up. On April 3, 2012, Orient Overseas Container Line signed
a 40-year, $4.6 billion lease with the port to operate the 300-acre terminal
along with its subsidiary, Long Beach Container Terminal. LBCT has occupied
Pier F since 1986.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Long Beach Board Postpones Middle Harbor Budget Vote
The Port of Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has
temporarily put off voting on the full budget for a $1.2 billion plan to
renovate two aging shipping terminals, saying that more time is needed for
review.
During its Jan. 7 meeting, the board agreed to place the
vote on hold pending further review of the Middle Harbor redevelopment project
by commissioners, stakeholders and the public. A workshop has been tentatively
set for Jan. 22, with the time still to be determined.
“There will be a study session about the overall project,”
Commission President Susan Anderson Wise explained. “Its phases and various
contracts will be reviewed in order for the board to have a broader understanding
of the entire project before voting on the project budget.”
The Middle Harbor redevelopment plan consists of the
combining of two aging shipping terminals, Pier E and Pier F, into one modern
terminal for the purpose of improving cargo-movement efficiency and reduction
of environmental hazards. According to the port, the project upgrades wharfs,
water access and storage area; as well as add a greatly expanded on-dock rail
yard.
Despite the lack of final budget approval, work on the nine
year project began in the spring of 2011; since then, the port has been
upgrading the area’s wharfs, water access and storage area, plus expanding
on-dock rail.
On April 3, 2012, Orient Overseas Container Line signed a
40-year, $4.6 billion lease with the port to operate the 300-acre terminal
along with its subsidiary, Long Beach Container Terminal. LBCT has occupied
Pier F since 1986.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Phase One Work Begins on Major Long Beach Port Terminal Project
The Port of Long Beach has kicked off one of the first major construction components of its massive $750 million Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project.
The ten-year Middle Harbor project is composed of roughly 30 individual construction projects that will redevelop and combine the port's existing piers E, D, and F into a single contiguous 342-acre megaterminal with more than double the capacity (and half the generated emissions) of the two former terminals.
Seattle-based contractor Manson-Connolly, who was awarded the $154 million contract for Phase I, Stage 1 of the Middle Harbor project in February, began staging equipment for work on Pier E earlier this month. Demolition work on the Pier E berth E-24 has now begun. In addition, Manson-Connolly has started construction of a containment dike across Pier E's Slip 1 in preparation for future work that will fill in the slip with landfill and eventually turn the slip-area into terminal space. Excavation and dredging work to widen the nearby Slip 3 is also preparing to move forward, as is work on a much smaller landfill project at the tip of Pier E.
Work on the Pier E component of Phase I is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2013. A second phase goes out to bid this July.
A roughly $13 million subcontract for the Manson-Connolly Phase I contract will also see sub-contractor Dynalectric install a dock electrification system and the landside power grid infrastructure for the Middle Harbor project so that power can be provided to ships, cranes, and area lighting. The subcontract calls for Dynalectric to excavate and install 260,000 feet of underground concrete encased conduit, underground pre-cast pull boxes, pre-cast vaults, pre-cast manholes, and a pre-cast tunnel vault.
Additionally, Dynalectic will install a main terminal substation and a ship-to-shore substation.
Ship-to-shore power systems allow vessel crews to turn of their auxiliary diesel engines while at berth and draw maintenance power for the vessels from the landside power grid, thereby cutting a large percentage of the diesel emissions generated during each call.
The Middle Harbor project represents one of the largest constructions efforts in the port's decade-long $4 billion capital investment program that began in earnest last year.
The ten-year Middle Harbor project is composed of roughly 30 individual construction projects that will redevelop and combine the port's existing piers E, D, and F into a single contiguous 342-acre megaterminal with more than double the capacity (and half the generated emissions) of the two former terminals.
Seattle-based contractor Manson-Connolly, who was awarded the $154 million contract for Phase I, Stage 1 of the Middle Harbor project in February, began staging equipment for work on Pier E earlier this month. Demolition work on the Pier E berth E-24 has now begun. In addition, Manson-Connolly has started construction of a containment dike across Pier E's Slip 1 in preparation for future work that will fill in the slip with landfill and eventually turn the slip-area into terminal space. Excavation and dredging work to widen the nearby Slip 3 is also preparing to move forward, as is work on a much smaller landfill project at the tip of Pier E.
Work on the Pier E component of Phase I is expected to be complete in the first quarter of 2013. A second phase goes out to bid this July.
A roughly $13 million subcontract for the Manson-Connolly Phase I contract will also see sub-contractor Dynalectric install a dock electrification system and the landside power grid infrastructure for the Middle Harbor project so that power can be provided to ships, cranes, and area lighting. The subcontract calls for Dynalectric to excavate and install 260,000 feet of underground concrete encased conduit, underground pre-cast pull boxes, pre-cast vaults, pre-cast manholes, and a pre-cast tunnel vault.
Additionally, Dynalectic will install a main terminal substation and a ship-to-shore substation.
Ship-to-shore power systems allow vessel crews to turn of their auxiliary diesel engines while at berth and draw maintenance power for the vessels from the landside power grid, thereby cutting a large percentage of the diesel emissions generated during each call.
The Middle Harbor project represents one of the largest constructions efforts in the port's decade-long $4 billion capital investment program that began in earnest last year.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Major Subcontract Awarded For Long Beach Middle Harbor Project
Development continues apace at the Port of Long Beach, with a major multi-million subcontract for electrical work on the massive Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project being awarded to a subsidiary of Fortune 500 construction firm EMCOR.
The contract with EMCOR subsidiary Dynalectric Los Angeles is actually a subcontract within a $123 million contract with Middle Harbor first phase construction lead Manson/Connolly that was approved by the port in mid-February.
The Middle Harbor project is a nine-year $1 billion modernization and consolidation of two aging shipping terminals into a more contiguous state-of-the-art container terminal with twice the current cargo capacity of the two existing terminals. The Manson/Connolly phase one work, which includes building wharfs, dredging one slip and filling in another, is expected to start this spring and take 22 months.
The Dynalectric contract will see the installation of a dock electrification system that will provide electrical power from the landside power grid to berthed container ships. Dynalectric will also install the power grid infrastructure for the Middle Harbor project so that power can be provided to ships, cranes, and area lighting.
Although financial details of the contract with Dynalectric were not immediately available, the specified electrical work in the larger Manson/Connolly contract was roughly $13 million.
The scope of work for Dynalectric includes excavation and installation of 260,000 feet of underground concrete encased conduit, underground pre-cast pull boxes, pre-cast vaults, pre-cast manholes, and a pre-cast tunnel vault. Additionally, Dynalectic will install a main terminal substation and a ship-to-shore substation.
Ship-to-shore power systems allow vessel crews to turn of their auxiliary diesel engines while at berth and draw maintenance power for the vessels from the landside power grid, thereby cutting a large percentage of the diesel emissions generated during each call.
The contract with EMCOR subsidiary Dynalectric Los Angeles is actually a subcontract within a $123 million contract with Middle Harbor first phase construction lead Manson/Connolly that was approved by the port in mid-February.
The Middle Harbor project is a nine-year $1 billion modernization and consolidation of two aging shipping terminals into a more contiguous state-of-the-art container terminal with twice the current cargo capacity of the two existing terminals. The Manson/Connolly phase one work, which includes building wharfs, dredging one slip and filling in another, is expected to start this spring and take 22 months.
The Dynalectric contract will see the installation of a dock electrification system that will provide electrical power from the landside power grid to berthed container ships. Dynalectric will also install the power grid infrastructure for the Middle Harbor project so that power can be provided to ships, cranes, and area lighting.
Although financial details of the contract with Dynalectric were not immediately available, the specified electrical work in the larger Manson/Connolly contract was roughly $13 million.
The scope of work for Dynalectric includes excavation and installation of 260,000 feet of underground concrete encased conduit, underground pre-cast pull boxes, pre-cast vaults, pre-cast manholes, and a pre-cast tunnel vault. Additionally, Dynalectic will install a main terminal substation and a ship-to-shore substation.
Ship-to-shore power systems allow vessel crews to turn of their auxiliary diesel engines while at berth and draw maintenance power for the vessels from the landside power grid, thereby cutting a large percentage of the diesel emissions generated during each call.
