2010
2010 Winner Profile
Port of Long Beach
- Project Description: The Port of Long Beach embarked on the Clean Trucks Program to reduce air pollution. Clean trucks--running on diesel and liquefied natural gas, are tagged using RFID chips and registered with the port's Drayage Truck Registry system. Port terminals only allow clean trucks that have been registered to enter the port. Trucks that don't meet 2007 emissions requirements are required to pay a fee of $35 per 20-foot-equivalent container unit, which the port uses to subsidize independent drivers' purchases of cleaner vehicles. As a result, most of the aging trucks have been replaced by 6,000 clean trucks, while 8,000 polluting trucks have been banned. Toxic soot has been reduced by 200 tons annually and nitrous oxides, which contribute to smog, have dropped 74 percent. In January 2010, the Port of Long Beach reduced air pollution by 80 percent compared with what it had been one year earlier.
- Project type: Data Warehouse, RFID
- Business Functions: Supply chain/logistics, IT operations, Environmental Planning
- Business Goal: Social
- CIO: Douglas Albrecht, Director of Information Management
- CEO: Richard Steinke, Executive Director
- Headquarters: Long Beach, Calif.
- Industry: Transportation
- Revenue (2009): $881 million (2010 budget)
- Website: www.polb.com
