U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and officials from across the nation attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, a $1.567-billion project that will double the footprint of the Port of Long Beach’s existing rail yard from 82 acres to 171 acres. 

Pier B will be built in phases, with construction scheduled for completion by 2032. The project will more than triple the Port’s capacity for on-dock rail to 4.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units per year, reducing emissions and stress on the local and regional road network, according to the Port.

“The Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility will add 130,000 feet of new tracks, build 36 new support tracks and more than double the number of trains leaving the Port to 17 per day,” said Port of Long Beach CEO Mario Cordero. “These improvements will benefit the entire U.S. supply chain and get us closer to the operational and environmental transformation into a zero-emissions port.”