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Published Nationally ® April 15 2018 Vol. IX • No. 8
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$90M Cool Port Under Construction in Oakland By Chuck Harvey CEG CORRESPONDENT
‘Dozer Dave’ Discusses Industry Issues, Advocacy...10
Preliminary Work Under Way on $1.5B Foothill Gold Line...15
Construction Under Way in a Galaxy Close to Home...18
California’s Port of Oakland is the site of a $90 million, 25-acre cold storage and distribution facility project that is expected to bolster beef and pork sales to Asia. It’s called Cool Port. Crews began sitework in May 2017 on Cool Port — an advanced, temperature-controlled logistics for handling perishable cargo such as fresh meat and fruit. As demand grows, train crews will bring vast quantities of chilled or frozen beef and pork to Oakland via the rails for transfer to shipping containers. Shipping containers will be moved across the street to outbound ships. The facility will span 280,000 sq. ft. and is designed to accommodate 36 refrigerated rail cars to be staged within the cold storage facility for loading and unloading of perishables. Phase 1 of the project is expected to conclude in August 2018. Port officials estimate that with Cool Port in place, 27,000 20-ft. containers of meat will be shipped from Oakland annually. The plan is to attract Asian customers to Midwest-grown
Port of Oakland photo
Crews began sitework in May 2017 on Cool Port, where containers of meat will be moved from train cars to cold storage then transferred to nearby ships.
beef and pork. “This is a game changer for global trade and the local economy,” said John Driscoll, Port of Oakland Maritime director in a Port of Oakland release. “We’ll connect U.S. producers to Asian consumers and in the process, cre-
ate hundreds of jobs in our own backyard.” Cool Port is a public-private partnership between Lineage Logistics of Novi, Mich., Dreisbach Enterprises of Oakland and the Port of Oakland. The partnership goes by the name
Denver Builds $1.1B National Western Center By Jennifer Rupp
Table of Contents ............4 California Section......15-19 Skid Steer Section ....21-37 Paving Section ..........49-57 Business Calendar..........58 Auction Section ........61-67 Advertisers Index...........66
see PORT page 16
when complete, will transform the National Western Complex site into a year-round global destination for agricultural heritage and innovation. The Center’s global reach also will have a powerful local impact by increasing neighborhood access to the South Platte River, adding bike lanes and running trails, and providing jobs and educational opportunities to surrounding neighborhood residents.
CEG CORRESPONDENT
The city of Denver, along with government, education and trade partners, is embarking on a billiondollar project to promote research and progress in agriculture for the next 100 years. The National Western Center, home of the National Western Stock Show, will provide a broad focus on entertainment, food, animal health and performance, water, energy, agriculture, rodeo, livestock, equestrian and sustainability and the environment on a new 250-acre campus. The National Western Center,
General Contractor Hamon Infrastructure Inc. of Denver is overseeing the Race Court Bridge reconstruction.
March 2015 The National Western Center Master Plan was adopted by Denver City Council to advance see DENVER page 40