West

California, Hawaii Port Projects Awarded $140.6M in Federal Grants

Long Beach Pier E.jpg — Port of Long Beach Container Terminal
*Photo courtesy Port of Long Beach*

In late October, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Maritime Administration awarded 41 port projects nationwide a total of $703 million in funding as part of this year's Port Infrastructure Development grants program. California received the largest number of grants overall, with a total of $93.3 million going six different projects statewide. Hawaii received $43.7 million for one project. The breakdown of the grant recipients is below.

The announcement comes as the California State Transportation Agency has issued a call for projects to receive funding as part of the state's $1.2 billion in one-time state funding for port and freight infrastructure projects. Approximately 70 percent of the program funding will go to projects that support goods movement through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the remaining 30 percent will fund ports and goods movement infrastructure in the rest of the state.

“California’s ports are critical to exporting and importing goods both abroad and throughout the United States,” said Governor Newsom in a statement. "After decades of neglect, we are finally making the critical investments needed to modernize our ports – helping us to keep up with demand in a way that is environmentally sustainable and brings our distribution process into the 21st Century.”

Project applications are due January 13, 2023, and CalSTA expects to announce the funding awards in March 2023.

California

Project	Location	Amount
Fisherman’s Terminal Piling Replacement Project	City of Eureka	$650,000
Middle Harbor Terminal Zero Emission Conversion Project	Port of Long Beach	$30.1 million
Outer Harbor Terminal Redevelopment Project	Port of Oakland	$36.6 million
Port of San Francisco Amador Street Infrastructure Improvement Project	Port of San Francisco	$9.6 million
Port of Stockton Rail Rehabilitation and Upgrade Project	Port of Stockton	$9.6 million
Seawall Replacement Project	Crescent City	$7.4 million

Hawaii

Project	Location	Amount
Kapalama Container Terminal Project	Honolulu Harbor	$47.3 million

C.J. Schexnayder is the Editor of ENR West. He has contributed to ENR's coverage of the construction industry for more than a decade. His work has focused on major projects, industry trends and emerging technology. He previously was the South America correspondent for the magazine based in Lima, Peru. During that time, he covered numerous large-scale infrastructure projects across the region including the Third Lane Expansion of the Panama Canal. In addition, CJ has been an award-winning newspaper reporter in Southern California, Texas and Louisiana.