On Thursday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other officials went to the port of Long Beach to start construction on a $1.5 billion railyard extension project, which will increase the dock's yearly capacity for rail cargo by more than three times. Known as "America's Green Gateway," the project will connect the port to thirty significant rail terminals around the nation and enlarge the current railyard. In order to lessen the influence that cargo trucks have on the environment, traffic jams, and air pollution, it attempts to streamline train operations. "With benefits to every region of this nation, this work establishes a rail network on a port that more than triples the amount of cargo that can move by rail to nearly five million containers annually—the kind of throughput that will keep America's economy booming and keep costs down," Buttigieg stated. According to him, the goal of this effort and others supported by the Biden administration is to repair supply chains disrupted by the epidemic and strengthen American supply chains' resistance to future disruptions. Forty percent of all shipping containers in the United States pass through the ports in Los Angeles or Long Beach, making it one of the busiest seaports in the nation. These ports saw an extraordinary backlog during the pandemic, with scores of ships sitting offshore and shipping containers accumulating on the docks due to a shortage of trucks for their transportation. The project is expected to be finished in 2032. Given the railyard development, there will be a depot where up to 30