The Port of Hueneme received US$80,000,000 from Governor of California Gavin Newsom for projects that are expected to create social and economic equity while providing significant revenue streams to help transform the port into a zero-emissions hub.
California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) served as the lead agency for the allocation of US$1.5 billion in Port & Freight Infrastructure Program (PFIP) funds approved in the Governor’s 2023-2024 budget on 30 June. CalSTA Secretary Toks Omishakin announced the allocations of this funding to Southern California seaports at a press event hosted at the Port of Long Beach on 6 July.
The port aims to proceed with its strategic PACED (Port Action, Climate, and Environment Development) project.
According to a statement, the multiple components of the project contribute significant benefits to the port and surrounding communities while sustaining supply chain fluidity, flexibility, and resilience, while ensuring continued operational excellence, sustaining, and creating new employment opportunities, improving air and water quality, mitigating the impacts of climate change and promoting transportation equity and environmental progress.
Toks Omishakin stated, “It is a historic and momentous day for transportation in California, for ports in California, and, more importantly, for the people of California. We worked with local partners, we worked with port leaders, we worked with federal officials to come up with a game plan. That game plan included short-term and long-term solutions.”
