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About TradePort California

TradePort California is a key national supply chain corridor and an integral part of the US TradePort Corridor system, which is now creating the largest, most efficient and cleanest logistics and investment corridors in the world. It is a clean sheet project that is being built on a purpose-designed, high-efficiency, clean energy platform.

TradePort California

TradePort California (TPCA) is a key national supply chain corridor and an integral part of the US TradePort Corridor system, which is now being created as the largest, most efficient and cleanest logistics and investment corridors in the world. It is a clean sheet project that is being built on a purpose-designed, high-efficiency, clean energy platform.

 

The US TradePort system is a transformational project that establishes a new benchmark model as an integrated logistics, supply chain investment hub, and clean energy system. Within the overall TradePort Corridor system, TradePort California establishes a seamless interconnection between ocean, truck, rail and air logistics, producing tangible value to shippers. Built over a 425-mile market area, TradePort California sets a standard for remaking the US logistics infrastructure network. The successful development of TradePort California is materially important to the development of a far more efficient and integrated national supply chain system.

 

TPCA capitalizes on more efficiently serving California’s sizable consumption and production base and its critical function of serving massive import/export cargo flows through its seaports. TPCA  creates large benefits for shippers: producing large new efficiencies , increasing  supply chain reliability, lowering costs, and a reducing  overall carbon footprint. TPCA provides an integrated supply chain product, providing better, more reliable, and lower-cost port-to-inland market logistics, while also offering connected and prepared investment sites for manufacturing and distribution.

TPCA  creates tremendous value to support state and local public objectives, namely improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion, increasing economic investment and jobs, and increasing road safety. TradePort California is substantially transforming regional economies, creating over 100,000 new high-quality, high-paying jobs throughout the market area.

TradePort Hubs range in size from 1,500 acres to 5,000 acres and each is made up of a Logistics Core Zone and an Investment District. The LCZ effectively will serve as a new “port” complex providing specialized logistics handling at various cargo terminals/facilities.

Led by the TradePort Development Corporation, the TradePort Corridor system is being delivered by a world-class private-public delivery structure.  TDC is coordinating large-scale logistics facilities, infrastructure, fueling/charging and technology investments toward developing TradePort Hubs in strategic locations.

Market Area

TradePort California supports a vast market area that includes much of the state of California and a substantial and diversified consumption and commercial production base. The Market Area stretches 425 miles from the Los Angeles region seaports complex northward through the entire Central Valley and onward to include the Bay Area and Sacramento regions. Combined, the market area includes approximately 31 million people, or the equivalent of the combined population of the states of Ohio, Georgia, and Michigan.  From a geographic perspective, the Market Area represents a combined region that is equivalent to the distance from Washington, DC, to Boston on the East Coast.

The logistics market is large, with over 1.1M containers moving inbound and outbound annually. Over the course of a year, there is almost an even split of inbound and outbound cargos, with the outbound baseload generally comprised of agricultural products and the inbound flow being a combination of finished consumer goods and industrial products.

From a global and continental trade perspective, the market area enjoys unparalleled external logistics connectivity. The market area is connected to domestic markets by a world-class system of rail lines and truck freight highway corridors and to global markets by proximity to a network of seaports and airports.

The market area includes the metropolitan areas of  Los Angeles , San Francisco , Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, and Sacramento, and also medium-sized and smaller communities such as Tulare, Visalia, Madera, Lodi, Merced, Hanford, and Tracy.

The large population base produces large inbound consumer goods shipment volumes, and the region is rapidly developing into a major West Coast logistics/distribution concentration. The market area is increasingly developing as a modern greenfield logistics center for both the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area.

California’s Central Valley region is one of the richest agricultural zones in the world, with massive production volumes for a variety of crops and food products. Due to the size of this agribusiness base, the Central Valley is also a major food production center, with products being shipped to 93 countries worldwide.

Public and Private Objectives Are Fundamental

TradePort California is a project system that has both transformational public and private objectives.

From the public perspective, theTPCAis designed to:

  • Create step-change progress toward improving air quality in an area of the State that has the worst air quality in the nation.  The project is designed to engineer substantial environmental benefits to large parts of California.
  • Accelerate State objectives to transition to zero-emission truck propulsion systems.
  • Create substantial new jobs and local tax revenues in areas of the State that have been underinvested in the past.
    • Create over 100,000 new high-quality jobs and producing substantial public revenues for local and State government.
    • Provide traffic congestion relief to major highway corridors that are overburdened and will otherwise only become more congested.
    • Substantially increase traffic safety on the region’s highways by truck-car separation and advancing the utilization of automation technologies.

For private interests, TPCA will:

  • Improve facility development and supply chain operating competitiveness for companies involved in the production and/or distribution of manufactured products

  • Decrease cargo transit time

  • Considerably increase supply chain reliability for shippers moving international cargo inbound through seaports and outbound California-grown/made products

  • Reduce transportation costs

  • Increase shipping choice
  • Substantially improve access to markets and operating cost efficiencies for the state's vast agricultural sector
  • Support corporate carbon footprint reduction objectives

Community Engagement

With significant public objectives in mind, TradePort California is being planned and developed with a keen eye toward both environmental justice and social equity objectives. The project development plan includes a robust process for assuring that the TradePort Corridor advances wider community objectives to assure that key infrastructure does not create unintended negative impacts on neighborhoods and communities.

The planning and development program has special attention on planning the project in such a way as to limit impacts to communities that have historically been located near to industry.

At the same time, the TPCA  has aggressive intentions to become a model for creating new high-quality jobs and associated training for people in communities located throughout the market area.