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Mojave Inland Port will be the largest dry port in the United States, and the first in California. It is on track for completion in 2024, after recent approval of Kern County Board of Supervisors.
It will be the only inland dry port fully permitted in California. As a dry port, it will rely on trains rather than ships. Cargo will move from the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach via train to Mojave, where it will be distributed onto trucks for transport to their final destinations.
When completed, the port project is intended to ease supply chain congestion and space limitation at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as well as provide much-need economic growth and diversity to the Mojave-Tehachapi region and beyond.
The dry port could handle as many as 3 million containers annually, having an annual economic impact in excess of $500 million
The proposed timetable is for the Mojave Inland Port to break ground in 2023 and be fully operational in 2024.
Residential Structures Crucial to Carbon Storage
Critically important for our changing climate, trees store carbon. When trees are harvested for wood products like lumber, some of that carbon continues to be stored. Even after a wood product is discarded, it keeps storing carbon.
Houses store so much carbon that figuring out how many houses will be built in the future is essential for understanding the total U.S. carbon storage capacity. Harvested wood products in residential structures will continue to increase carbon storage for the next 50 years, according to a new USDA Forest Service study.
The study predicts that the estimated average annual carbon stored in wood products used in and discarded from US residential housing units between 2015–2070 represents 47% to 78% increase of total carbon uptake relative to all wood products in the United States in 2019.