Excerpts from the Daily Breeze:
The Port of Los Angeles is coming under renewed criticism following release of an audit that revealed air quality-improvement mandates were not met by the 173-acre TraPac terminal.TraPac terminal, Port of Los Angeles
The revelations come on the heels of the port’s acknowledgment late last year that it had not met 11 of the 52 pollution-cutting measures agreed to in the 2003 China Shipping settlement.
In a Nov. 16, 2015, letter to the port, TraPac Vice President Scott Axelson said the terminal would “not meet the goal” of using Alternative Maritime Power technology for 80 percent of vessels calling at TraPac. AMPing, as it is called, allows ships to plug into clean shore power rather than use diesel fuel.
