Southeast : Work Starts at Container Port
Officials from the Port of Long Beach and Hanjin Shipping have broken ground on what should eventually be the largest container terminal in the largest container port in the country.
The 170-acre terminal will have an expansive wharf, two-thirds of a mile long, capable of handling the new mega-container ships, which can carry 2,500 40-foot cargo boxes. It will have six huge gantry cranes, as well as space for two 8,000-foot-long freight trains on dockside rails.
The South Korean-owned Hanjin, which has taken advantage of the explosion of trade between the United States and the Far East, is one of the fastest-growing shipping companies in the world.
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