b'4American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comYTIS McCorkle says training & teamwork(HEADWINDScontinuedalready services companies like from page 3) Amazon,Target,Walmartand port has. Expanding on that, theRoss stores, making it a strate-fought the ONE Henry Hudson fire UniversalTruckAppointmentgicinlandgatewayforgoods Systemhasalreadyimprovedmoving through our Port. With a By Stas Margaronis, AJOT gate usage by 20% for the 20,000new rail center planned for this trucks that serve our Port.year,adedicatedshuttletrainCollaboration with Long Beach.will run between Shafter and our Alan McCorkle, CEO Yusen Terminals Inter- A key element in the successful combating of fireThankstoan$8millionCali- portcomplex,streamliningthe national (YTI) located at the Port of Los AngeleswasthecollaborationofmanydifferentagenciesforniaGO-Bizgrant,Weareflow of Central Valley exports to said the successful fighting of the fire that brokeled by the LA Fire Department wasone of theexpandingthePortOptimizerglobal markets.out on the Ocean Network Express (ONE)Henrymany respondingagencies we hadobviously,toaccessappointmentdataat EPA Clean Ports Grant. The HudsonlastNovemberwasonewe had Coast Guard, we had multi- Port of Long Beach terminals inEPA Clean Ports grant is moving ofthetoughestchallengeshetudeagenciesthere that night.the future. This grant also sup- forward: Together with private has faced in nearly forty years ofBut we have had enough experi- ports new CalPorts applications,funding, this $650 million infu-working on the waterfront.ence withemergency response,enablingsecuredata-sharingsion will bring battery-electric, InaninterviewwithAJOT,with fire department calls over theacross the five major containerhuman-operated,zero-emission McCorklesaid:Inmynearlyyearsthat we know how it worksports in California. This is greaterequipmenttoourdocks,along forty-year career I would have to we have done drills. reachandgreaterimpactallwith new charging stations and saythis is one of the top threeMcCorkle cited the importancedrivenbysmartertechnology.250 ZE (zero emission) drayage . events that impacted meitof the drills: But we practice for this.Andtheseapplicationsaretrucks. Five of our terminalsjust had to resonate with you in soWe train for thisWe train for termi- protectedbythenationsfirstYusen, Everport, Trapac, Fenix many ways. nal evacuations because thats (whatPortCyberSecurityOpera- and APMTare already order-McCorkle recalled he learnedis) going on those firstthose firsttionsCenter.Lastyearalone,ing equipment.about the fire on a Friday night:minutes.Youre evacuating a ter- oursystemblockedmorethanThat same grant will help So it was Friday night, Novemberminal. And hows our management?820millionintrusionattemptsbringshoresidepowertothe 21 stand we are at the end of a longAlan McCorkle, CEO, YTI Hows ILWU, Customs and BorderfromnetworkexploitationWalleniusWilhelmsenAuto week.WehadhadabusyweekProtection?Howisthevesseltomalware,ransomwareandTerminal in Wilmingtonone that week because we had had our Board of Direc- crew?Any vendors attending to the vessel?phishing schemes. of the West Coasts busiest auto tors in town . And you get to Friday like man,McCorkle observed, A lot of activity going on, Wonderful Logistics Center.import and export facilities. For finally got to the weekend andheading homebut it was not chaos. It was remarkablyorganizedSerokasaidthatlastsummerthe first time, roll-on/roll-off ves-and like ready to enjoy the weekend And thenbecause people knew what they needed to do. we signed a Memorandum ofsels will be able to plug into clean I get a call somewhere around 6:30, 6:35, from theUnderstanding with the Wonder- electricity safely while docked.Head of Operations: Hey,we have had a . popg roWingC onCernS Withf ire ful Company to improve connec- SSAMarineoperatingthea fire on the shipbut dont know the extentAs the fire continued into the night, McCorkletionswithCaliforniasCentralfruitterminalatBerth55has of it yetAnd so.my first question the firstsaidthereweregrowingconcernsaboutthefireValleyandbringmoreAmer- completely converted its fleet of question you always ask is: Was anyone hurt? Atimpacting other potentially flammable or hazardousicanexportsthroughourPort.44 heavy duty forklifts to battery that point the answer was: We dont know trying cargoes and creating a health and air quality threat toAt the heart of the agreement iselectric power. Its our first termi-to ascertain what is going on right now.the surrounding communities of the San Pedro Baythe Wonderful Logistics Centernal to fully transition to zero-emis-When McCorkle arrived back at YTI, the Losincluding Wilmington, Long Beach and San Pedro:inthecityofShafter(CA),asions cargo-handling equipment.Angeles Fire Department was already fighting theSo they had several drones that were giving them3,400-acreindustrialdevelop- The Port is also investing in fire on the ship. Thanks to extensive drilling,YTIthe photos of what it was looking like down therement strategically located alongcleaner rail operations: Just as staff, ILWU longshore labor, US Coast Guard, L.A.in the ship. So,they got this information of thetheBNSFRailwaysmain- (HEADWINDScontinued on Port police and others were supporting that effort:(FIREcontinued on page 6) line.Thisfast-growinghubpage 6)'