Port of Los Angeles sees record increase in on-dock lifts
More than one million on-dock rail lifts took place at the Port of Los Angeles in 2005, moving nearly a quarter of all containers passing through the port last year, the port said in a statement Wednesday.
The total represents an increase of more than 23 percent over 2004 rail moves. Since 2002, on-dock rail lifts have increased from 16.3 percent of all lifts to 24.5 percent of all lifts in 2005. In raw numbers, total on-dock moves has increased from 549,062 in 2002 to just more than 1 million last year.
There are four on-dock facilities at the port, serving six of the seven container terminals through a 57-mile network of tracks. Ten to 12 trains leave the port every day, taking the equivalent of 2,500 trucks off the roads.
Port of Los Angeles sees record increase in on-dock lifts
