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Three Ports Plan * USA - Cargo Movement Projects
Plans aim at speeding cargo handling, reducing truck traffic, and cutting air pollution
Sacramento,CAL,USA -CalTradeReport -2 May 2008 – Three Northern California ports - Oakland, Sacramento, and Stockton - are finalizing plans to improve their ability to handle both container and break-bulk cargo and reduce the number of trucks moving on the highway network linking the San Francisco Bay Area and the distribution centers and markets located in the state's Central Valley... The California Transportation Commission has given the go-ahead to the deepening of the Sacramento Ship Channel ... When completed, the project will deepen the 43-mile-long channel between West Sacramento and the Solano County town of Collinsville in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta from 30 to 35 feet... Because the deepened-channel will enable more goods – including cement, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wind energy equipment, project cargo, rice and large construction materials – to be moved into and from the Sacramento area by ship, at least 23,545 two-way truck trips will be removed annually from Interstate 80 between the Port and the Bay Area, with corresponding air quality and congestion benefits... Like the Sacramento Channel deepening project, the proposed ferry service would assists trucking firms in remaining productive by reducing the amount of time transiting congested intra-city corridors; reduce diesel air emissions and traffic volume on the region’s highways; and improve traffic safety by reducing the number trucks per day from the traffic corridors between the deep-water ports of Oakland, Sacramento, and Stockton...Labels: transport system plans
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