The head of PierPass gate operation at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports says the only pressure on capacity marine terminals comes when large numbers of truckers want to pick up or drop off containers at the same time.
“We have plenty of excess capacity, both day and night,” PierPass President Bruce Wargo told the Agriculture Transportation Coalition in San Francisco, rejecting suggestions that the gate system is straining to handle business. “It’s the bunching that hurts us.”
Established six years ago by terminal operators to manage extended gates program in Southern California, PierPass made an unpopular decision last week to increase its traffic mitigation fee to $60 per TEU from $50, effective July 4.