Thread: Arizona's contribution to the SPP

Along with the CanaMex Super Corridor, the UP rail line will open up the area for transition to the SPP.

In all of these issues; rail lines, Mexican trucks, etc., I never hear anyone mention the threat of more illegals being smuggled in or dangerous cargo being smuggled in, or more importantly illegals with criminal records being disbursed to all points in the U.S. 100% inspection of these rail cars and trucks, etc. is highly doubtful, although they will tell us anything to get us to buy into their BS.

UP and the SPP

Concerned citizens, farmers and business leaders have banded together to try to make the best of a proposed new Union Pacific railroad line through the community.

Union Pacific is exploring potential routes for a new rail line to carry goods from a proposed deep-water port in Punta Colonet, 150 miles south of Tijuana, to markets across the United States. In recent months, several organizations have met to mount opposition to the railroad's plans.

Seems the PTB's cannot reveal much in the way of details about the rail line coming through Yuma. Big surprise there huh?

More on the UP

Thursday's railroad meeting was supposed to be about possible economic benefits. Instead, it was almost entirely about possible routes.

UP says it cannot be specific about a route, but that didn't stop people from asking.

story here

"If Yuma becomes the entry point for a port with the potential to reach the current size of Los Angeles/Long Beach, the possible result would be thousands of jobs and millions of square feet of warehouse space," concluded the study, titled "The Southwest Gateway: Logistics on the Arizona/Mexico Border."

The study was commissioned by the governor's CANAMEX Task Force and conducted by Arnold Maltz, associate professor of supply chain management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. He spent 12 years in transportation and distribution prior to earning his doctorate in logistics marketing.

For sources, Maltz said he drew on reports about other U.S. ports, such as Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as projections for the expected volume of shipping activity of a port at Punta Colonet.

He said his study was done "totally independently" of an economic study conducted for Union Pacific.

The need for a new port is driven by an ever-increasing volume of goods imported from Asia, primarily China, that is straining the current ports, Maltz said. And with the work stoppage at the Long Beach port a few years ago at Christmas time, retailers are pushing for solutions to keep goods flowing to markets.

Great! Yeah, we need another LA/Long Beach type port in the West!?!?!?!

Yeah, we want the smog and traffic and the thousands of empty containers stacked up all over the county just like the LA/Long Beach area!?!?!?!

Oh, and yeah, we definitely need more cheap Chinese goods distributed all over the USA in substandard trucks originating in Mexico......