BUSINESS PROFILE
SUCCESS AT IVORY CHOICE TERMINAL IS ABOUT LOCATION AND MUCH MORE
Victor Castillo, Ivory Choice Terminal (ICTC) general manager.
“Location, location, location.” Real estate professionals often rely on that famous catchphrase to promote a property and land a sale. Adhering to that catchphrase was also a major factor in G&W’s decision to purchase the business of the Port of Ivory in Reedley, California, in June 2021. The Port of Ivory is now called Ivory Choice Terminal Co. (ICTC) and is strategically situated on 91 acres of land adjacent to both G&W’s San Joaquin Valley Railroad (SJVR) and Highway 99, a north-south road stretching almost the entire length of California’s 20,000-square-mile Central Valley. This ideally positions ICTC to provide rail-to-truck transload and storage services to a wide range of current and future customers. VALUED TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER “There is no question that ICTC’s location makes it an important and valued transportation provider to businesses in the Central Valley,” says Victor Castillo, ICTC general manager. “But location is only one aspect of ICTC’s total offering. We have connections
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An Ivory Choice Terminal (ICTC) training session.
to Union Pacific and BNSF via SJVR, the capacity to handle more than 200 railcars and more than 500,000 square feet of covered storage. We are also cleaning and organizing the property to maximize its potential to meet customers’ needs.” While ICTC’s business has met expectations since G&W took ownership, there have been some challenges for the 19-member ICTC team, which, in addition to Castillo, includes an administrative team, a lead transloader, two general mechanics and 12 transload laborers.