Shanghai and LA green corridor project reaches milestone

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Shanghai (LA-LB-SH) Green Shipping Corridor (GSC), the first partnership of its kind across the Pacific, and facilitated by C40 Cities, has successfully delivered on its phase one milestones.

These include the expansion of shore power infrastructure to meet 100 per cent electrification serving container vessels, deploying reduced lifecycle carbon-capable vessels and scaling sustainable fuel bunkering operations.

Green corridor progress report

The corridor partners will present their second Annual Progress Report at the North Bund International Shipping Forum 2025.  The report spotlights the significant progress made by the partnership since the launch of the GSC, specifically over the past year, and outlines the steps planned to achieve future milestones, including demonstrating the feasibility of deploying zero lifecycle carbon emission container ships by 2030.

In March 2025, partners gathered at the Port of Long Beach for the second in-person meeting, in which the corridor partners reaffirmed their consensus on the corridor goals, further detailed additional actions for addressing challenges, and launched a fourth working group to focus on Metrics and Evaluation.

Along with the other dedicated working groups – Energy Supply, Carriers, and Ports– the partners continue to make progress towards their respective missions:

Ports working group

• Expanded shore power infrastructure to reach 100 per cent capability in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, cutting emissions while ships are docked and improving air quality for local communities. The Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports completed the installation of shore power to meet earlier mandated State regulations
• Bunkered more than 47,000 tons of green methanol at the Port of Shanghai, and realised China’s first linkage for domestically produced green methanol
• Commissioned a Clean Fuels Study for POLA/POLB and prepared for a clean marine fuel pilot project.