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The cargo crisis in California is affecting everything from the cost of groceries to the threat of a holiday shopping shortage across the nation.

Port of San Diego to electrify freight trucks, cranes, even some tugboats by 2030

The goal — part of a sweeping <u><a href="https://www.portofsandiego.org/mcas">Maritime Clean Air Strategy</a></u> — comes five years ahead of a California state-mandated transition for heavy-duty trucks and exceeds efforts at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Print Once flush with proceeds, the Port of San Diego’s savings account is projected to nosedive to a far-lower-than-allowed balance by the end of the next fiscal year — or around $27 million less than what is required of the agency’s reserve fund. The shrinking-savings situation was discussed Tuesday during the agency’s regular monthly meeting after CEO Joe Stuyvesant and CFO Robert DeAngelis presented the board with a preview of the financial road ahead for the fiscal year beginning July 1. For the upcoming year, the port is forecasting revenue growth of 5.4 percent over fiscal 202...

Print Some of San Diego’s most celebrated bayfront destinations — Seaport Village and the Coronado Ferry Landing — are governed by an unfamiliar entity with power that, in 2021, will prove more consequential than ever. Formed by the state in 1962, the San Diego Unified Port District spans 34 miles of coastline from Shelter Island to the border. The land was granted to the agency to hold on behalf of the public; it includes tidelands in San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and Coronado. It’s a self-funded, non-taxing entity governed by a board of seven commissioners wh...