The CCT and of course our two owners, UP and BNSF get to gain from another new customer on the CCT at Port Stockton, CA , Paper inbound and Possibly raw gypsum and wallboard outbound. Add this to Lowes, and Pacifc ethanol and a new Bio-Fuel company or two by this time next year.
CCT and the Port are adding 9000 feet on new interchange track in 2007 and again in 2008.

STOCKTON - A $220 million wallboard plant will be built at the Port of Stockton, bringing with it 150 jobs by 2010, building-materials giant USG Corp. announced Monday.

It will help USG subsidiary United States Gypsum Co. better meet growing California demand for wallboard - produced under the Sheetrock brand name - than existing USG plants in Southern California, Nevada and Oregon, said Robert Williams, corporate communications director.

"We have other West Coast facilities that allow us to get to California, but not as well or efficiently as a Stockton plant will enable us to do," he said Monday by telephone. "It's really just a perfect location for us."

USG's planned outlay would be the single largest private investment in a San Joaquin County manufacturing facility, said Michael Locke, chief executive of the San Joaquin Partnership, a regional economic development agency.

The wallboard plant will also create opportunities for other companies, such as those employing truck drivers and longshore workers. "We believe that there will be about 31/2 to four jobs created for every direct job," Locke said.

Construction of the plant itself over the next three years is expected to generate 800,000 work hours, providing jobs at one point or another for an estimated 3,000 workers.

Even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had something to say about the project.

"USG's decision to build a new plant in our state shows that manufacturing companies can thrive in California, and at the same time, demonstrate environmental stewardship," Schwarzenegger said in a press release.

USG underlined many of the environment-friendly features of the facility to be built on 90 acres near the center of Rough and Ready Island. Those including using 100 percent recycled paper to surface its wallboard and recycling 100 percent of plant production waste. It will also feature a closed-loop liquid effluent system, meaning zero discharge into area waterways.

Officials said the Fortune-500 company's announcement underlines the Stockton port's unique attributes of having sea, highway and rail transportation and land for development.