Port of Long Beach Security Command and Control Center
Long Beach, California
New Security Command and Control Center
The Port of Long Beach (POLB) is located in Southern California’s San Pedro Bay. Serving as a major transportation and trade center, POLB provides the shipping terminals for nearly one-third of the waterborne trade moving through the West Coast. Each year, POLB handles in excess of $100 billion in goods, it supports about 1.4 million U.S. jobs, and it generates roughly $15 billion in trade-related wages.
Together, POLB and the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) make up the largest active port complex in the United States and rank as the world’s fifth busiest complex (after Hong Kong and Singapore), based on the combined number of cargo containers shipped through both ports. In keeping with our national objectives of protecting our country’s borders, POLB has secured funding from the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to design and construct a new and shared 25,110-ft² Security Command and Control Center (SCCC) in Long Beach.
Construction Management
POLB hired Parsons to provide construction management services on its SCCC project. This 3-story-high facility with a helipad will house the POLB security and police department. The primary objective of the facility is to monitor above, on, and below water security continuously. POLB envisions this new center as a central location that supports its security monitoring operations and can be accessed concurrently—when needed or desired—by POLA, the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Coast Guard (USGC), and other law enforcement agencies, in addition to POLB’s own security division.
