Last summer’s Port of Los Angeles headliner event — a tall ships festival with a very special guest star, the world-famous giant rubber duck — drew 277,000 people to San Pedro and Wilmington over just five days.

Nothing this summer will likely surpass those numbers for a one-hit attraction.

But the port still anticipates big crowds for a series of waterfront concerts, movies, festivals and special displays that will play out through the summer of 2015.

“Obviously, last year brought the tall ships and the incredible crowds that came out for the rubber duck,” said port spokesman Phillip Sanfield. “We won’t have that, but it should be a busy summer and we’re working on some things to keep the momentum going through the fall.”

This summer will feature the seventh annual Cars & Stripes Forever! pre-Independence Day concert with a car and fireworks show, an event that’s been growing rapidly over the years since it began in 2008.

This year could see especially large crowds for that event since it will be held July 2 — a Thursday and the eve of what will be a three-day weekend for most people since the Fourth falls on a Saturday this year.

The Red Bull Rallycross race also will return for a second year in the outer harbor on Sept. 12 and 13. The ocean-view venue, Sanfield said, worked out well for the televised debut event last year.

And Navy Days, set for Aug. 8-9, is tentatively planned to coincide this year with a Los Angeles Fleet Week event that would give the program a much higher profile in terms of official Navy promotion and support. Visiting ships will be announced closer to the event, but Sanfield said an aircraft carrier — which packed the town with visitors in 2011 — isn’t expected to be among the vessels.

While not an official port event, a revised and renamed Taste in San Pedro returns Aug. 1 (5-9 p.m.) after a blackout of three years when discussions took place on how to redesign the outdoor food festival.

“We really want to emphasize that this is the ‘new’ Taste,” said Elise Swanson, president and CEO of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, which has put on the event since 1989.

Gone will be the carnival atmosphere that came to dominate the Taste held for most of its years in Point Fermin Park.

The new evening-only program puts a stronger emphasis, she said, on San Pedro’s own unique restaurants — thus, the name change that returns the event moniker to the Taste “of” rather than the Taste “in” San Pedro, a name devised over the years so that restaurants from out of the area could participate.

Live music and other entertainment is being coordinated by the Grand Vision Foundation.

Admission is $45, which includes five taste tickets for good-size portions, Swanson said, and the event, while family oriented, will be limited to those 21 and older.

It will be held “under the stars” in the courtyard at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles and will showcase the new Brouwerij West microbrewery opening this summer in Warehouse 9 next door to the arts-and-crafts marketplace.

A new L.A. Waterfront Passport program also will be offered this year that will include an array of discount coupons for the area’s museums and attractions, including the Battleship Iowa, as well as for restaurants and shops. Passports are $22 for adults and $16 for children at the Battleship Iowa’s box office.

More public events are expected to be added to the port’s calendar for the fall, Sanfield said, and will be announced later. Visit www.lawaterfront.org for more details.

And while the giant rubber duck won’t be back, the small-scale version of the iconic bathtub toy is owned by the Port of Los Angeles and probably will make some harbor appearances, Sanfield said.

The schedule so far:

• June 6 (2-10 p.m.), Fiesta Corazon del Puerto, Wilmington Waterfront Park, 1004 W. C St., Wilmington, with music, dancing and food trucks (310-847-7704)

• June 7, 14, 21 and 28 (noon to 5 p.m.), Summer Concerts by the Sea, Downtown Harbor (next to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum), 504 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro. Free concert series with live music and food (310-732-3508)

• June 20 (6-9:30 p.m.), Concert on the L.A. Waterfront, Banning’s Landing Community Center, 100 E. Water St., Wilmington, a free concert with family activities featuring performances by the Mariachi Divas and Ballet Folklorico Sol de Mexico (310-732-3508)

• July 2 (5-10 p.m.), seventh annual Cars & Stripes Forever!, Fanfare Fountain at Gateway Plaza, 600 N. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro; pre-Independence Day celebration with free classic car show, live bands, food trucks, beer garden and a fireworks finale over the harbor (310-732-3508)

• July 23 (8 p.m.), movie in the park (“Big Hero 6”), Wilmington Waterfront Park, 1004 W. C St., Wilmington, free (310-732-3508)

• July 24 (8 p.m.), movie on the water (“Big Hero 6”), Downtown Harbor, 504 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro, screen sits on a floating barge in the water, free (310-732-3508)

• Aug. 1 (5-9 p.m.), Taste of San Pedro, Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles, revamped event featuring beer-and-wine tasting and live music; $45 admission (21 and older; www.eventbrite.com). Tickets on sale May 30 (310-832-7272)

• Aug. 8-9 (tour times will vary), Navy Days L.A. 2015, World Cruise Center, 600 N. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro (310-732-3508)

• Sept. 12-13 (race times will vary), Red Bull Global Rallycross races on the waterfront, Outer Harbor, end of Miner Street in San Pedro (www.redbullglobalrallycross.com for tickets)

• Sept. 25-27, Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival, Ports O’ Call Village (www.lobsterfest.com)