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12/1/2023
The Port of Long Beach plans to solicit bids in early 2024 for the first construction contract involving the new Pier B on-dock rail support facility.
The $1.56 billion facility will be built in phases, with the final segment projected to be completed in 2032. The facility will more than double the size of the existing Pier B rail yard from 82 acres to 171 acres, and more than triple the volume of on-dock rail cargo the port can handle annually, from 1.5 million 20-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) to 4.7 million TEUs, port officials said in a press release.
The facility will also feature a depot for fueling and servicing up to 30 locomotives at the same time and a full-service staging area to assemble and break down trains up to 10,000 feet long.
Constructing the facility involves adding more than 130,000 feet of rail, quadrupling the number of tracks from 12 to 48, widening the rail bridge over the Dominguez Channel from two to three tracks, and reconfiguring and improving nearby Pico Avenue and Pier B Street.
"We’re eager to break ground and start laying new tracks for this transformative facility," said Long Beach Harbor Commission President Bobby Olvera Jr. "Expanding and modernizing this rail yard allows our port to move more cargo faster, more efficiently and more safely to markets across the nation."
Pacific Harbor Line Inc. provides rail transportation, maintenance and dispatching services to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.