The Port of Los Angeles paid a Chinese government-owned shipping
company $5 million in 2005 to equip cargo vessels to plug into electric
shore power while at dock to keep their massive diesel engines from
polluting neighborhoods near the harbor.
The company, China
Shipping, used the money to upgrade 17 ships, but the city didn't get
all the promised environmental benefits. Most of the vessels stopped
traveling to Los Angeles in 2010, a Times review of shipping industry
data showed.
The ships that took their place on the Asia-to-Los Angeles route
were not all equipped for shore power. From 2010 to 2013, a period in
which residents were promised that virtually every vessel docked at the
terminal would plug in, half left their engines running, port records
show. In 2012, 88% left their engines running.
L.A. Times story
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