FAXDC.com has learned that the Union Pacific has announced plans to build a $90
million state-of-the-art 300-acre intermodal rail terminal alongside Interstate
35 in San Antonio, advancing the city's goal to establish itself as a NAFTA
inland port.

In an Aug. 23 announcement, the railroad said the San Antonio terminal will
process more than 100,000 truck trailers annually when completed in 2008, with
the capacity to grow to a potential of 250,000 trailers and containers per year.

Kyle Burns, president and CEO of the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, stated,
"The new Union Pacific Intermodal facility located in south San Antonio will be a
benefit to San Antonio by further enhancing our world-class logistics and
transportation infrastructure, that currently handles interstates and rail lines,
running both north-south and east-west. San Antonio is at the cross-roads of
U.S.-Mexico-Canadian trade."

With over 80,000 semi trucks currently traveling to rail yards within the San
Antonio city limits to pick up or drop off containers and trailers, the new
facility is designed to relieve traffic in the city.

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Additionally, the new terminal will give truckers the option to drop off their
containers with easy access from I-10 and I-35, accommodating in San Antonio many
trucks that now must go through the city to Houston to drop off containers for
trains bound for other destinations.

Union Pacific plans to utilize advanced computer systems and technology to
coordinate the movement of rail cars, trucks, trailers and containers such that,
"a truck entering or leaving the facility will be stopped at the gate for only 30
to 45 seconds, compared to the national average of four minutes."

In making the announcement, Union Pacific positioned the railroad as a North
American railroad, commenting, "Union Pacific connects with Canada's rail systems
and is the only railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico, making it
North America's premier rail franchise."

The San Antonio Business Journal noted the Union Pacific terminal was
strategically located to ship and receive containers with household goods both
from West Coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as Mexican
ports such as Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas.

Additionally, the terminal will receive containers of auto parts destined for the
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas Inc. plant in San Antonio.

"Combined with multi-modal services at Port San Antonio," Burns said, "this new
facility provides a service and infrastructure that will assist existing
manufacturers and attract new manufacturing companies to join the already
successful Toyota tundra manufacturing plant."

The Free Trade Alliance San Antonio was created in 1994 as a trade group
dedicated to promoting the development of San Antonio as a world trade inland
port.

In a position paper on the Alliance website, the group notes "congestion in U.S.
West Coast ports combined with poor rail service has led to a virtual choking of
Chinese exports into the United States."

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The Alliance position paper continues to state, "San Antonio is working with
alternative ports in Mexico (Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas) and on the Texas
Gulf Coast (such as Houston and Corpus Christi) to offer Chinese exporters a
competitive and time-efficient alternative to their traditional distribution
routes through California."

Burns said, "International trade is growing at an unprecedented rate in our
community and we are pleased that Union Pacific is investing $90 million to build
a world-class intermodal rail yard to process freight in and out of our city."

Remarks by Alliance President Kyle Burns posted on the group's website in its
current newsletter documents the active steps being taken to promote San Antonio
in world trade.

Future events in the next few months include two Alliance-led trade missions, one
to Mexico and the second to China.

Additionally, the Alliance has scheduled in October its second annual Business
Conference China, second annual Mexican Business Leaders meeting, and the third
annual Inland Ports Conference.

Following a recent Alliance-led trade mission to Canada in July, the group is
planning trade missions yet this year to Mexico City and to China.

An advocacy position paper on the Alliance website makes clear the group strongly
supports the Department of Transportation's planned cross-border Mexican truck
demonstration project, arguing "this program is paramount to developing new
logistics and distribution opportunities for San Antonio."

The Free Trade Alliance San Antonio is a member of the North American Inland Port
Network, which has been incorporated as a subcommittee into the North America's
SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, the Dallas-based trade group supporting the
development of NAFTA and WTO-related trade along Interstates 35, 29 and 94.

In addition the Kansas City SmartPort also has declared itself an inland port but
with intentions to open a Mexican customs office in Kansas City.

Containers entering the U.S. through Mexican ports such as Manzanillo and Lazaro
Cardenas would utilize cheaper Mexican dock workers instead of the longshoremen
who work at West Coast ports such as Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Additionally, containers transported from the West Coast overland to the
heartland today use U.S. truck drivers or United Transportation Union railroad
workers, who are typically more expensive than their Mexican counterparts.

The Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, the other members of NAIPN are
AllianceTexas, Kansas City SmartPort, the city of Winnipeg, The Central Mexico
Inland Ports Initiative, and Iowa Inland Port.

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The ports of Houston and New Orleans are preparing to handle an increased flow of
containers from China, including the post-Panamax container ships from China
designed to travel through an expanded Panama Canal.

The Wall Street Journal reported March 28 that Princeton economics professor Alan
S. Blinder, the former Federal Reserve vice chairman who advised President
Clinton to push through the passage of NAFTA, now estimates the U.S. could lose
up to 40 million jobs to outsourcing over the next two decades as the country
transforms into a service economy.

To handle the anticipated influx of millions of containers with cheaply
manufactured Chinese goods into North America, transportation economists have
emphasized "intermodal" as a methodology for moving containers efficiently by
ship, truck and train, without having to reload the contents.

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