VANCOUVER, Wash. – The Port of Vancouver USA has been awarded $2.5 million of federal stimulus funding for construction of its West Vancouver Freight Access rail project.
The funding is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) put together by Congress and the Obama Administration to stimulate the economy and create jobs in the United States.
At the Port of Vancouver, the $137 million West Vancouver Freight Access project is creating jobs for the Vancouver, Clark County and Greater Southwest Washington community. As many as 1,900 construction, design, engineering and other related jobs are being created due to the project.
The project will allow for unit train access into the port as early as spring 2010, which will result ultimately in the reduction of as much as 40 percent of the congestion in the BNSF Vancouver Yard and along the north-south BNSF main line, which serves rail customers as far away as Houston and Chicago. Congestion at the Vancouver Yard can delay rail traffic on this vital north-south, east-west mainline.
The ARRA funding will be used to help construct unit train facility on the port’s new Terminal 5 (formerly the Alcoa Aluminum smelter) is due to begin in late summer 2009.
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