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Transport Intelligence * USA - Dredging the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
Sacramento,CAL,USA -News Review, By Jeff vonKaenel -25 June 2009: ... It takes roughly 1,000 diesel trucks to unload and transport cargo from a ship docked in Stockton or San Francisco to Sacramento. After the dredging is completed, the Port of West Sacramento will be able to handle an additional 157 ships per year, potentially avoiding 157,000 truck trips. In addition to not clogging up our highways, a single large ship emits significantly less air pollution than 1,000 trucks. If the Obama administration follows through with plans to restrict the use of low-sulfur fuel oil while ships are traveling inland, ships will burn even cleaner... Port of West Sacramento manager, Mike Luken, says they’ve already contracted for another 118 ships to use the port. The dredging project appears to be going full steam ahead ... (Aerial Photo www.aerialarchives.com/Labels: transport intelligence
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