The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have released a proposal for a three-year program offering incentives to transition trucks to zero-emissions.
According to a September 15 release, the San Pedro Bay Ports Complex will offer qualifying zero-emission trucks $60 per terminal visit, totaling up to $36,000 per vehicle annually. After the first two years of the initiative, the ports will then evaluate the program for any potential changes, or to extend it beyond the three-year window.
“This incentive program is another tool in our decarbonization playbook, helping offset the higher costs of owning and operating zero-emission trucks, based on direct feedback from truckers about what they need," said Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba. "Closely collaborating with our supply chain partners has been critical to the environmental progress we have made already and it’s going to be even more important as we chase our zero-carbon goal.”
Zero-emission trucks will be identified at terminal gates by RFID tags, which will be unique to each vehicle moving through the ports. Incentives will be distributed in the form of month payments to fleet operators. Funding will come from the complex's Clean Truck Fund, which collects a fee of $10 per twenty-foot equivalent unit from cargo owners for loaded containers hauled through the ports by conventional diesel trucks.
The ports estimate that there were roughly 667 qualifying zero-emission trucks serving the complex as of July 2026, making up just 3% of the total number of trucks at the ports. Of those, just 426 were active (defined by those that made one or more trips to the ports as recently as July).
The incentive program will next be subject to public comments through November 2. After that, it will need to be approved by harbor commissions for both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach by February 28, 2027.
