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Pier E Container Yard/Intermodal Railyard Phase I
Port of Long Beach – Herzog/Reyes, a joint venture
This Container Yard/Intermodal Yard project is the centerpiece of the Port of Long Beach’s Middle Harbor Program which involved connecting and upgrading two existing shipping terminals and transforming them into a single, unified and fully automated terminal. This is the first facility of its kind in North America that has been built for the use of automated container movement and is considered by the Port of Long Beach and industry officials as the most environmentally friendly terminal in the world.
Project Design
The Intermodal Yard component of this project was designed to support the largest on-dock facility in the world. The Intermodal Yard includes “Loading Track” and “Storage Track” as well as “Escape Tracks.” This yard can spot three separate 10,000-ft long unit trains and move over one million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) per year which is more than 20% of the entire Port of Long Beach’s annual throughput
The Intermodal Yard component of this project was designed to support the largest on-dock facility in the world. The Intermodal Yard includes “Loading Track” and “Storage Track” as well as “Escape Tracks.” This yard can spot three separate 10,000-ft long unit trains and move over one million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) per year which is more than 20% of the entire Port of Long Beach’s annual throughput.
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Some of the other construction activities required to build this facility included the demolition and removal of an existing container terminal, earthwork which included construction of reclaimed land and a rolling surcharge which was used to accelerate settlement/consolidation, installation of wick drains (to accelerate settlement/consolidation of the reclaimed land), excavation shoring, construction of water distribution systems, construction of storm drain systems, construction of sewer systems, compressed air & equipment systems, 70,000 cy of recycled base course, approximately 60,000 cy of AC pavement, 60,000cy of roller compacted concrete, 60,000 cy of Portland cement concrete paving, and 40,000 linear feet of concrete support crane rail for the automatic stacking cranes (including structural concrete foundations). The project also included construction of the rail mounted gantry crane rail and foundation, retaining walls, OCR portal construction, pavement markings & wheel stops; chain link fence, k-rail, structural steel reefer racks, construction of the intermodal track system, installation of train-in-motion system and electrical high-voltage backbone and signals. HRJV was responsible for the systems integration and testing.
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The CY/IY project also coordinated with ten (10) adjacent concurrent contracts.