PortTechLA Technologies |
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| Our business is technology commercialization. We exist for the purpose of helping companies with technologies that would help the customers of the Port of Los Angeles (and other ports worldwide) address some of their technological and regulatory challenges. These include environmental, clean energy, homeland security and transportation/logistics. |
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EnvironmentThe ships, trucks, trains and cargo handling equipment that operate in San Pedro Bay produce about 40% of the diesel particulate matter in the Los Angeles basin, so we are especially interested in technologies that reduce local levels of Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) and oxides of Sulfur (Sox). [read more] |
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EnergyThe sun, the wind, tidal action; we have clients who are using all of them to generate electricity. Imagine a totally self-sufficient portable street light with an LED fixture powered by a solar panel, with a wind turbine on the top. Now take that light and plunk it down in a remote location where no one will ever run a power line. [read more] |
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SecurityHomeland security is a hot topic when you’re located in the busiest container port in the world. The Port of Los Angeles is truly a national asset, thus our interest in protecting it is immense. Consider the fact that we have seven shipping company terminals; cruise liners; three railroads; and dozens of trucking companies operating in the Port, and you can quickly understand our diverse interests. [read more] |
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LogisticsImagine that instead of thousands of trucks and locomotives moving containers through the Port and out to distribution centers in the LA Basin, we were able to move individual containers along rail tracks without a truck or train engine completing even one RPM. [read more] |
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