{"id":5165,"date":"2025-03-31T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/03\/31\/us-west-coast-continues-its-green-fuel-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:15:06","slug":"us-west-coast-continues-its-green-fuel-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/us-west-coast-continues-its-green-fuel-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"US west coast continues its green fuel progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Hacegaba, chief operating officer, Port of Long Beach told <em>AJOT<\/em> that the purpose of the white paper is to provide ports with strategic recommendations for accelerate the adoption of clean marine fuels, with an emphasis on the leverage of the&nbsp;California\/Shanghai green shipping corridor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone involved in this initiative sees the potential of the Green Shipping Corridor that now connects California to Shanghai,\u201d said Mario Cordero, CEO,&nbsp;Port of Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur green journey has evolved into a goal of zero emissions and decarbonising one of the world\u2019s busiest trade routes and it\u2019s great to see the parties involved in the green corridor stepping up the collaboration needed to reach this destination. Infrastructure investment and policy changes to allow clean marine fuels to be more widely used will be particularly important to maximise the trans-Pacific partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the green shipping corridor, the&nbsp;strategy paper \u201cClean Marine Fuels\u201d, produced by&nbsp;ICF Consulting on behalf of the port, gives several other options to accelerate the adoption of clean marine fuels.<\/p>\n<p>It encourages the enhancement of green ship incentive programmes to reward vessels adopting clean fuels and advises collaboration across stakeholders, including shipping lines and terminal operators, which it said is essential to identify and develop fueling infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The report also recommends streamlining permitting processes which can expedite infrastructure projects while aligning with sustainability goals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Long Beach, in a strategy paper called \u2018Clean Marine Fuels\u2019 has identified the progress and steps it needs to make to transition to green fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33],"tags":[40,798,1620,610],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-americas-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-china","tag-green-corridor","tag-port-of-long-beach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}