Unfortunately, the facility itself will not create many new jobs for Idahoans. But maybe it will add to trucking and other jobs indirectly.


Idaho's first intermodal rail terminal to be built in Pocatello

A Salt Lake City-based transportation and logistics company has announced plans to build
the state’s first intermodal rail terminal in Pocatello, thereby making it quicker and
cheaper to export a variety of agricultural commodities.

Savage — a global supply chain company with 4,500 workers based in more than 200 locations
— plans to start construction immediately on the facility, to be called Savage Railport-
Southern Idaho, according to a press release. It should be operational by the middle of
this year.

Savage has reached an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad to build and operate the
terminal within the Pocatello rail yard. Savage workers will fill rail cars with containers
loaded with agricultural commodities at the intermodal terminal. Union Pacific will haul
the goods to Northwest Seaport Alliance terminals in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington,
according to the press release.

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"The rail port will employ about four workers, and more employees will likely be
hired as volumes increase, Hymas said.

[www.idahostatejournal.com]