BNSF Railway Co. and the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council have announced they finalized a project labor agreement worth more than $255 million for the construction of the proposed Southern California International Gateway (SCIG) intermodal facility in L.A.
Designed as the nation’s “greenest intermodal facility,” the SCIG will enable containers to be loaded onto trains about four miles from docks at ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach instead of being transported 24 miles on local roads and the 710 freeway to downtown rail facilities, BNSF officials said in a prepared statement. The $500 million facility will be constructed in phases over a three-year period.