Long Beach Backs Green Truck Corridor to Mexico
The Port of Long Beach recognized Bali Express Services for a green corridor linking the port with Mexico. Bali is running CNG and electric trucks on the lane and plans to add more clean trucks this year.
A cleaner cross-border lane
The Port of Long Beach has recognized Bali Express Services for helping build a green truck corridor between Southern California and Mexico.
The corridor covers roughly 125 miles between the port, Bali's San Diego County facility, and Mexico. FreightWaves reported that port executives and Mexican consulate officials marked the effort as part of the port's broader zero-emission push.
What Bali is running
Bali has been moving cargo on the lane with a mix of compressed natural gas and electric trucks. The company currently operates 32 CNG trucks and six EV trucks, and it plans to add another 20 CNG and 20 electric trucks this year, including Tesla Semis.
The scale is still early, but the lane is commercially relevant. U.S.-Mexico trade reached $873 billion in 2025, and nearly 90% of that moved by land, with trucking carrying most of the load.
Why fleets should care
Ports are becoming test beds for cleaner freight because the routes are repetitive, high-volume, and visible to regulators. Long Beach also recently launched a Zero-Emission Truck Early Leaders Award for early adopters serving marine terminals.
Bali says its longer-term target is a fully zero-emission fleet of more than 350 trucks by 2040. For private fleets and drayage carriers, the useful signal is not that every lane is ready for battery-electric trucks today. It is that ports are starting to reward carriers that can prove lower-emission freight on specific corridors.
