The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national infrastructure grant program known as TIGERII to help construct an intermodal rail yard.
The West Basin rail yard will provide a rail car staging and storage area for the nearby on-dock rail yards at the China Shipping/West Basin container terminal and the TraPac terminal.
Storage and staging of rail cars will facilitate the movement of trains between the on-dock facilities and the Alameda Corridor. The Alameda Corridor connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with destinations in the eastern half of the country, carrying about 15 percent of the waterborne containers entering the U.S.
Total cost of the project is $125 million. The port has also attracted state and local assistance totaling about $50 million. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2001, with completion by the end of 2013. Some 1,987 construction jobs will be created by the project.
The West Basin rail yard will provide a rail car staging and storage area for the nearby on-dock rail yards at the China Shipping/West Basin container terminal and the TraPac terminal.
Storage and staging of rail cars will facilitate the movement of trains between the on-dock facilities and the Alameda Corridor. The Alameda Corridor connects the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with destinations in the eastern half of the country, carrying about 15 percent of the waterborne containers entering the U.S.
Total cost of the project is $125 million. The port has also attracted state and local assistance totaling about $50 million. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2001, with completion by the end of 2013. Some 1,987 construction jobs will be created by the project.