A study is also ongoing into deepening the navigation channel serving the port, from its current 35 feet depth to 38-40 feet.<\/p>\n
Several road and rail infrastructure projects have been moving ahead this year in support of the port’s rapid growth, says Stockton’s director of marketing, Bill Lewicki.<\/p>\n
The Port of Stockton Expressway features a newly constructed bridge and road system to give improved connections between port and the main state highway, and take port traffic away from local residential areas.<\/p>\n
At the East Complex, the port has just completed a new rail interchange yard, providing an additional 5,500 feet of track.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, agreements have been signed for the construction of a new cold store at the East Complex; this will occupy nearly 18.5 acres and provide nearly 400,000 sq ft of chilled, cold and frozen space for both domestic and import\/export customers. The project is expected to take four years to complete – it will be operated by Inland Cold Storage and represents nearly $40m of private investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Port of Stockton, which handled 3.23m tonnes of imports and 528,238 tonnes of exports last year, continues to pursue governmental and environmental permissions for a project to dredge to 35 feet the seven berths at its West Complex facility, formerly the US naval facility on Rough & Ready Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}