Plans To Build A 'Dry Port' In The Mojave Desert Gets Backing

CBS Los Angeles

August 12, 2022

The effort to build a "dry port" in the middle of the Mojave Desert now has the backing of the Kern County Board of Supervisors.

The planned Mojave Inland Port, which received a proclamation of support this week from the Kern County Board of Supervisors, is 90 miles from the San Pedro Bay, where the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports have been stymied by supply chain problems caused by the pandemic, and pent-up demand that exploded during the nation's economic recovery. The project is being spearheaded by Pioneer Partners, a Texas-based private holding company, which purchased the desert tract in 1991.

The desert shipping port would be built on 400 acres next to the Mojave Air & Space Port – an airport capable of accommodating the largest commercial cargo aircraft round-the-clock -- and is served directly by rail and by two major highways – State Highways 14 and 58. Once the port is in operation, containers arriving from ships at the Ports of LA and Long Beach will be off-loaded onto shuttle trains for direct transport through the under-used Alameda Corridor to Mojave, for distribution to the rest of California and the nation.

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