Los Angeles Port

The Port of Los Angeles is one of the premier US gateways for international trade and commerce. Twenty-nine diversified facilities for handling all types of cargo are available, including six state-of-the-art container terminals. Other facilities are available for accommodating automobiles, dry and liquid bulk products, cruise passengers, and other maritime needs.

With an anticipated doubling of cargo expected by the year 2020, the Port completed its Pier 300/400 Implementation Program, a $600 million capital development program encompassing 24 separate, but related, projects. It is the largest capital improvement undertaking of any U.S. port and the Port’s most ambitious program since its founding in 1907.

The Port of Los Angeles is a department of the City of Los Angeles and is often referred to as the Los Angeles Harbor Department. The Port is operated and managed under a State Tidelands Trust that stipulates that gives local municipalities jurisdiction over ports as long as activities are related to commerce, navigation and fisheries.

As a proprietary and self-supporting department, the Port is not supported by taxes. Instead, revenue is derived from fees for shipping services such as dockage, wharfage, pilotage, storage, property rentals, royalties and other Port services. Considered a landlord port, the Port of Los Angeles leases its property to tenants who then, in turn, operate their own facilities.

A five-member Board of Harbor Commissioners, who are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council, provide direction for the Port.