page_title: Port of Long Beach
section_title: Command and Control Center
hierarchical_section_title: Port of Long Beach / Security / Command and Control Center
caption_attribution_description: English: Screen capture from the movie in the link shown. The security room at the Port of Long Beach. Officer monitors the port and all incoming and outgoing ships for 11 miles around the port.
context_page_description: The Port of Long Beach, also known as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is the second-busiest container port in the United States, after the Port of Los Angeles, which it adjoins. Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres of land with 25 miles of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California. The Port of Long Beach is located less than two miles southwest of Downtown Long Beach and approximately 25 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. The seaport generates approximately US$100 billion in trade and employs more than 316,000 people in Southern California.
context_section_description: In February 2009, the Port opened a $21 million command center. The Command and Control Center conforms to the port's Green Port Policy of being energy efficient.
caption: Security officer watches the port, detecting all ships within 11 miles of the facility.
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