Port of Yokohama and Port of Los Angeles Signed a MOU for Decarbonization of Ports <FY2022>

The Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Yokohama (POY) have built a long history of cooperation since POLA and POY signed a Cooperative Trade Agreement in 1969, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding that created a Trainee Exchange Program in 1991.

On 13 March in 2023, a MOU was signed for the purpose that to deepen the relationship even further between two ports built on the spirit of collaboration, cooperation and sharing best practices through discussion, consultation, and the exchange of knowledge and ideas to strengthen collaboration on environmental measures and decarbonization.

POLA and POY are both striving to improve global market competitiveness, advance port innovations and technology, establish a Green Shipping Corridor (GSC), and digitalization. In particular, the Quad – Australia, India, Japan and the United States, and the Quad Shipping Task Force, POLA as the designated leading U.S. port and POY as the designated leading Japan port, both ports work for green and decarbonize the shipping value chain.

From upper left,

Shinya Hitomi, President and CEO of Yokohama Kawasaki International Port Corporation

Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California

Toks Omishakin, the Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency

From bottom left,

Hiroya Nakano, Director General of Port and Harbor Bureau, City of Yokohama

Gene seroka, Executive Direcor of the Port of Los Angeles