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Stockton Selects Terminal Operator for Marine Highway Container-on-Barge Service

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The Port of Stockton has selected SSA Marine to manage the port’s terminal for the new M-580 Marine Highway Corridor service between the Stockton and Oakland. That service is scheduled to commence early this spring. 

Per its agreement with the port, SSA Marine will provide container-on-barge terminal services, including terminal management, marketing and logistical support. The port will provide management oversight as the prime contractor, including barge and towboat operations.

In February 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the award of a $30 million TIGER grant for the ports of Oakland, Stockton and West Sacramento to develop the infrastructure necessary to establish a container-on-barge service between the Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay area. Stockton received $13 million of the grant toward its purchase of two 140-ton mobile harbor cranes and improvements needed to support the project. The port also purchased two dedicated barges, which were modified with cell guides to handle containers.

The M-580 Marine Highway will offer an environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient and cost-competitive long-term logistics solution to transport containers between Oakland and Stockton. An estimated 1,600 containers are trucked daily between the two ports. M-580 will also serve as an overweight corridor, offering cost savings to exporters by allowing them to load containers to full capacity. 
 

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