A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas,where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary,ports can also be found far inland,such as Hamburg,Manchester and Duluth;these access the sea via rivers or canals. Because of their roles as ports of entry for immigrants as well as soldiers in wartime,many port cities have experienced dramatic multi-ethnic and multicultural changes throughout their histories.
San Pedro is a neighborhood located within the South Bay and Harbor region of the city of Los Angeles,California,United States. Formerly a separate city,it consolidated with Los Angeles in 1909. The Port of Los Angeles,a major international seaport,is partially located within San Pedro. The district has grown from being dominated by the fishing industry,to a working-class community within the city of Los Angeles,to an increasingly dense and diverse community.
The Port of Los Angeles is a seaport managed by the Los Angeles Harbor Department,a unit of the City of Los Angeles. It occupies 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "America's Port",the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles,approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown.
Terminal Island,historically known as Isla Raza de Buena Gente,is a largely artificial island located in Los Angeles County,California,between the neighborhoods of Wilmington and San Pedro in the city of Los Angeles,and the city of Long Beach. Terminal Island is roughly split between the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach. Land use on the island is entirely industrial and port-related except for Federal Correctional Institution,Terminal Island.
San Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port in San Diego County,California,near the Mexico–United States border. The bay,which is 12 miles (19 km) long and 1 to 3 miles wide,is the third largest of the three large,protected natural bays on California's 840 miles (1,350 km) of coastline,after San Francisco Bay and Humboldt Bay. The highly urbanized land adjacent to the bay includes the city of San Diego and four other cities:National City,Chula Vista,Imperial Beach and Coronado. The bay is considered to be one of the premier natural harbors on the West Coast.
The Oakland Seaport is a major container ship facility located in Oakland,California,in the San Francisco Bay. It is operated by the Port of Oakland port authority along with the Oakland International Airport. It was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. As of 2022,it was the eighth busiest container port in the United States,behind the ports of Los Angeles,New York/New Jersey,Long Beach,Savannah,Houston,Virginia,and Seattle/Tacoma. Development of an intermodal container handling system in 2002 after over a decade of planning and construction positions the Oakland Seaport for further expansion of the West Coast freight market share. In 2019 it ranked 8th in the United States in the category of containers.
The Port of Long Beach,administered as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach,is a container port in the United States,which adjoins Port of Los Angeles. Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade,the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km2) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach,California. The Port of Long Beach is located less than two miles (3 km) southwest of Downtown Long Beach and approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Downtown Los Angeles. The seaport generates approximately US$100 billion per year in trade and employs more than 316,000 people in Southern California. In 2022,the port,together with the adjoining Port of Los Angeles,were considered amongst the world's least efficient ports by the World Bank and IHS Markit citing union protectionism and a lack of automation.
San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California,United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach,which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world and the busiest in the Americas. The Los Angeles community of San Pedro borders a small portion of the western side of the bay. The city of Long Beach borders the port on the eastern side of the bay. The northern part of the bay,which is the largest part of the port,is bordered by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington.
State Route 47 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California,connecting Terminal Island to the mainland in the Los Angeles area. From its south end at I-110 in San Pedro,it heads east across the Vincent Thomas Bridge to the island and the end of state maintenance. The state highway begins again at the junction with I-710 on Terminal Island,crossing the Schuyler Heim Bridge north to the mainland and the second terminus,where SR 103 begins. Signage continues along a locally maintained route,mainly Alameda Street,to the Gardena Freeway in Compton,and an unconstructed alignment follows the same corridor to the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) near downtown Los Angeles.
Port management involves the management of ports.
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York-Newark metropolitan area,encompassing the region within approximately a 25-mile (40 km) radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
The Gerald Desmond Bridge was a 1968 through arch bridge that carried five lanes of Ocean Boulevard from Interstate 710 in Long Beach,California,west across the Back Channel to Terminal Island. The bridge was named after Gerald Desmond,a prominent civic leader and former city attorney for the City of Long Beach. In October 2020,a new cable-stayed bridge named Long Beach International Gateway replaced the old Gerald Desmond Bridge to allow taller container ships to access the ports. Demolition of the old bridge began in July 2022 and was completed in August 2023.
The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies is an environmental research and education facility run by the University of Southern California. It is an organized research unit that encompasses a wide range of faculty and topics across the university as well as operating a marine laboratory at the edge of Two Harbors,California on Catalina Island approximately 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles.
The Port of San Diego is a seaport in San Diego,California. It is located on San Diego Bay in southwestern San Diego County,and is a self-supporting district established in 1962 by an act of the California State Legislature. In addition to port activities,the Port District controls San Diego Bay and owns and manages the bay's immediate waterfront under the state's Tidelands Trust.
Jennifer Ann Oropeza was the California State Senator for the 28th district which included the cities of Carson,El Segundo,Hermosa Beach,Lomita,Manhattan Beach,Redondo Beach,and Torrance;the Los Angeles communities of Cheviot Hills,Bel Air,Harbor City,Harbor Gateway,Lennox,Mar Vista,Marina del Rey,Palms,Playa del Rey,Rancho Park,San Pedro,West Los Angeles,Westchester,Wilmington and Venice;and part of the city of Long Beach.
The academics of the University of Southern California center on The College of Letters,Arts,and Sciences,the Graduate School,and its 17 professional schools.
Yannis C. Yortsos is a Greek-American chemical engineer and academic,currently serving as Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Sarah Preston Monks (1841–1926) was an American naturalist,educator,scientific illustrator,and poet,based for much of her career in San Pedro,California. Monks was the first zoology instructor at Los Angeles State Normal School,a precursor to the University of California,Los Angeles,where she taught for over 20 years,and published on diverse topics including reptiles,amphibians,spiders,and marine biology.
Petros A. Ioannou is a Cypriot American Electrical Engineer who made important contributions in Robust Adaptive Control,Vehicle and Traffic Flow Control,and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Andrea P. Belz is an American innovation engineer,academic and author. She is a Professor of Practice in Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Vice Dean of Transformative Initiatives in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC).
