Long Beach considers expanded cement terminal

The Port of Long Beach has completed the final environmental impact report for the Mitsubishi Cement facility modification project.    The Port of Long Beach has completed the final environmental impact report for the Mitsubishi Cement facility modification project. 
   The Southern California port’s Board of Harbor Commissioners will consider the results of the final EIR during its May 11 meeting and whether to approve the proposed project.
   Specifically, Mitsubishi Cement has proposed modifications to its existing import cement facility at Pier F. The facility receives bulk cement and related materials, such as Portland cement, blast furnace slag, pozzolans, and fly ash, from bulk vessels at Berth F208. The product is then stored in a warehouse and loading silos before being loaded onto trucks via three loading racks and transported to local and regional concrete batch plants, the port authority said.
   The proposed project calls for building 40,000 metric tons of additional capacity consisting of storage and loading silos on vacant port property adjacent to Mitsubishi’s existing facility. The existing site would expand from 4.21 acres to 5.92 acres.
   “It would also include installing an emission control system (dockside catalytic control system) to capture and reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from ship auxiliary generators at berth, as well as upgrade ship unloading equipment and land side structures,” according to the port authority.