Pasha, based in Corte Madera near San Francisco, also plans to operate warehouses and other facilities that will provide room for auto manufacturers to store cars and parts, providing an alternative to storing them at the crowded ports.
One of the developers of Southern California Logistics Airport, partner Dougall Agan of Laguna Hills, Calif.-based Stirling Airports International, tells GlobeSt.com that the Pasha project will help the ports to operate more efficiently by clearing port land that is now covered with acres of cargo containers waiting to be loaded onto trains for the Midwest and other destinations.
"About 40% of the real estate at the ports is used for storing containers," Agan says. The ports would rather have that land to build more railroad sidings and staging areas so that they can assemble trainloads of cargo containers faster, he says, and the Pasha project would clear the land by moving many of the cargo containers to Southern California Logistics Airport by rail. Once at the airport, the containers will be stored for later shipment by rail or truck.
The Pasha site also should reduce truck traffic at the ports by reducing the "tremendous number of trucks that's coming in to haul containers out because they (the ports) can't build trains fast enough," Agan tells GlobeSt.com.
Construction of the Pasha facilities should begin in about 14 to 18 months, Agan says, following the completion of environmental work and site preparation. The first part of the two-phase project could be completed in about 16 months afterward, and the second phase a year after that.
"Asia is just screaming for us to increase our timeliness and reliability" at the ports, Agan tells GlobeSt.com, explaining that congestion at the ports delays the delivery of goods and keeps ships waiting too long to be unloaded for the return trips to Asian countries.
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