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Exporting the emissions from LA to emissions from "green" land?
Author: AZebra
Date: 08-09-2016 - 12:04
mook Wrote:
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> If you're thinking Ensenada or the other project
> in northern Baja, no, it hasn't happened (yet).
>
> There are several other ports on the Mexican west
> coast that handle container and bulk traffic
> though not in huge volumes. Inland transport
> capacity is an issue even for those with
> railroads.
>
> There are a couple of Canadian ports (Prince
> Rupert, Vancouver) that can handle container and
> bulk traffic, and have decent rail connections to
> the mid-continent. Likewise, Seattle-Tacoma does a
> good container business, while Portland is more
> into specialties and Oakland seems to be having a
> pause in container traffic growth. San Diego is
> pretty much just bulk and cars and seems likely to
> stay that way since containers need specialized
> port equipment and space, deep draft at big docks,
> and they pretty much have to go through LA to get
> to San Diego anyway.
>
> The improved Panama Canal will certainly adjust
> traffic at the West Coast ports (ALL of the West
> Coast), but when it all settles I expect the
> LA/Long Beach ports to still move somewhere near
> half of the container traffic approaching and
> leaving the West side of North America. The port
> facilities, local demand (which is significant,
> not just for transloading), and capacity to move
> stuff inland by rail and highway just can't be
> matched by any other single port, and barely so by
> all of the others put together except possibly
> Sea-Tac.
>
> The emissions issue isn't just with the ports,
> though the LA/Long Beach ports are certainly an
> 800# gorilla. Despite improved emission controls,
> diesel trucks in large volumes still produce
> localized air quality problems along freeways and
> around terminal/warehousing sites whether draying
> or just hauling - not as bad as even just a few
> years ago, but still bad enough. And railroads
> can't be ignored - operations that are local to
> California like switching lines will probably be
> pushed to eliminate the rest of their older
> locomotives and replace, preferably with Tier 4
> (expect some public funding for that, as in the
> past). There will be continued pressure on EPA to
> tighten long-haul diesel standards even though
> Tier 4 only recently started. Bottom line: there
> are still plenty of emission reductions to be
> wrung out of commercial transportation in general
> though, as with cars, we're past the point of
> low-hanging fruit.
Wait, what, what, what, is going on here.
PofLA, PoLB, Oakland, SeaTac, Mexico, and even the Panama Canal itself are ALL DONE DONE DONE!!!!
The Port of Eureka with the new East-West Rail line will render all of them OBSOLETE!!!!
Doesn't anyone read (and believe) the news, especially the news off the Redwood Coast? Any container line that isn't making arrangements for the use of Eureka is finished!
And BART will be taking over the old NWP Eel River canyon line for their next extension. It was in an newsletter. Or on Trainorders. Or somewhere. It must be true.
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> If you're thinking Ensenada or the other project
> in northern Baja, no, it hasn't happened (yet).
>
> There are several other ports on the Mexican west
> coast that handle container and bulk traffic
> though not in huge volumes. Inland transport
> capacity is an issue even for those with
> railroads.
>
> There are a couple of Canadian ports (Prince
> Rupert, Vancouver) that can handle container and
> bulk traffic, and have decent rail connections to
> the mid-continent. Likewise, Seattle-Tacoma does a
> good container business, while Portland is more
> into specialties and Oakland seems to be having a
> pause in container traffic growth. San Diego is
> pretty much just bulk and cars and seems likely to
> stay that way since containers need specialized
> port equipment and space, deep draft at big docks,
> and they pretty much have to go through LA to get
> to San Diego anyway.
>
> The improved Panama Canal will certainly adjust
> traffic at the West Coast ports (ALL of the West
> Coast), but when it all settles I expect the
> LA/Long Beach ports to still move somewhere near
> half of the container traffic approaching and
> leaving the West side of North America. The port
> facilities, local demand (which is significant,
> not just for transloading), and capacity to move
> stuff inland by rail and highway just can't be
> matched by any other single port, and barely so by
> all of the others put together except possibly
> Sea-Tac.
>
> The emissions issue isn't just with the ports,
> though the LA/Long Beach ports are certainly an
> 800# gorilla. Despite improved emission controls,
> diesel trucks in large volumes still produce
> localized air quality problems along freeways and
> around terminal/warehousing sites whether draying
> or just hauling - not as bad as even just a few
> years ago, but still bad enough. And railroads
> can't be ignored - operations that are local to
> California like switching lines will probably be
> pushed to eliminate the rest of their older
> locomotives and replace, preferably with Tier 4
> (expect some public funding for that, as in the
> past). There will be continued pressure on EPA to
> tighten long-haul diesel standards even though
> Tier 4 only recently started. Bottom line: there
> are still plenty of emission reductions to be
> wrung out of commercial transportation in general
> though, as with cars, we're past the point of
> low-hanging fruit.
Wait, what, what, what, is going on here.
PofLA, PoLB, Oakland, SeaTac, Mexico, and even the Panama Canal itself are ALL DONE DONE DONE!!!!
The Port of Eureka with the new East-West Rail line will render all of them OBSOLETE!!!!
Doesn't anyone read (and believe) the news, especially the news off the Redwood Coast? Any container line that isn't making arrangements for the use of Eureka is finished!
And BART will be taking over the old NWP Eel River canyon line for their next extension. It was in an newsletter. Or on Trainorders. Or somewhere. It must be true.
