Walters: Shipping needs are at odds with California’s climate goals

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Walters: Shipping needs are at odds with California’s climate goals
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The machinery of logistics — ships to trucks to locomotives — produces tons of particulate emission.

During unprecedented congestion of cargo at the ports of LA and Long Beach there is a constant flow of ships and containers in Long Beach on Friday, November 12, 2021. In retrospect, Southern California’s political and civic leaders may have erred a half-century ago in deciding that the region’s economic future would depend on developing a massive logistics industry centered on the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Recently, West Coast ports finally settled a long-running conflict with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union with a new six-year contract. However, during the dispute, wildcat work stoppages had tied up traffic through the twin ports and some shippers moved their business to East Coast and Gulf ports.

The machinery of logistics — ships to trucks to locomotives — produces tons of particulate emissions. They and the warehouses they serve also create traffic congestion and noise and over time the physical presence of logistics breeds resentment that, in turn, morphs into political and legal action.

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