AIRPORTS
Passenger Service
Sacramento International Airport, located 12 miles north of West Sacramento, is the primary, regional passenger facility offering nonstop flights to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, St. Louis and Maui. One stop and connecting flights are available to Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., as well as many international destinations such as Mexico. Over 150 daily flights are offered by 14 major domestic carriers including Alaska, America West, Hawaiian, Mexicana, Frontier, Horizon, Aloha, Southwest, United, American, Delta, Continental, Jet Blue and Northwest Airlines. Over 8.5 million passengers were carried in 2002.

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors recently approved a new plan for the airport. The design calls for a new passenger terminal that will be comprised of two buildings with a shuttle tram connecting the terminals. The new terminal will encompass 1.1 million square feet and be located near the new five story parking structure currently under construction. Other major airport expansion components are the planned lengthening of a current runway, as well as the construction of an additional runway on the western end of the airport.

Air Cargo
Air cargo services are readily available to businesses in West Sacramento. The United Parcel Service (UPS) Regional Processing Center and the United States Postal Service (USPS) Sacramento Regional Processing Center are centrally located in West Sacramento.

Sacramento International Airport handles the majority of the region’s air cargo through major carriers Federal Express, DHL and Eagle Global Logistics.

Sacramento Mather Airport is an air cargo and general aviation facility located 12 miles to the east and offering service by cargo carriers United Parcel Service and Airborne Express.

General Aviation
Thirty general aviation airports serve the Sacramento Region with the largest being Sacramento Executive Airport, 5 miles south of West Sacramento. The airport is used for corporate and small private aircraft, aircraft charters, flight training, rental and repair.

Natomas Airport is a small, general aviation airport is located approximately 5 miles northeast of West Sacramento.

PUBLIC TRANSIT
The Yolo County Transportation District operates 32 buses and 10 Para transit vehicles in the Yolo County region. Access to nearly every city and town in Yolo County is possible on the YOLOBUS busline including Davis and UC Davis, Woodland, Winters, Knights Landing, Vacaville, Dunnigan and the Capay Valley. There are also several routes that connect the city to Sacramento, including a line to Sacramento International Airport. Local attractions are easily reached using the YOLOBUS including the Cache Creek Casino and Raley Field. The YOLOBUS connects with the Sacramento region’s major public transit line the RT, which operates 77 bus routes throughout the metropolitan region. For further information visit www.yolobus.com and www.sacrt.com.

RAIL SERVICE - FREIGHT
Rail-served sites are available in West Sacramento that can offer an efficient and low cost alternative to trucking. Yolo Shortline Railroad is the local rail freight operator. Both Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) provide long haul service to and from West Sacramento. UP has a double-track, main line running east-west through West Sacramento from Oakland to Salt Lake City. Both UP and BNSF operate main lines in Sacramento that run from the Northwest U.S. to the Southwest U.S. Access to the nationwide rail network is excellent.

Yolo Shortline operates branch lines that extend south to Clarksburg and northwest to Woodland. Yolo Shortline also serves the Port of Sacramento and interchanges with both UP and BNSF. UP also switches various spurs and sidings in West Sacramento industrial areas.

PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE
The AMTRAK passenger train station is 1.5 miles from West Sacramento in downtown Sacramento with another station in the city of Davis fifteen miles to the west along I-80. Two AMTRAK passenger lines stop in downtown Sacramento providing service daily between San Francisco and Chicago, including stops in Reno and the Lake Tahoe area. The Capitol Corridor passenger train offers 18 daily trips starting at 5:00 a.m. between Auburn and the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area. The San Joaquin provides service to Los Angeles.

PORT OF SACRAMENTO and Foreign Trade Zone #143
The inland, deep water Port of Sacramento is conveniently located at the geographic center of the city of West Sacramento and handles bulk and break-bulk cargoes through five berths. The 47-mile Deep Water Ship Channel has clear draft of 30 feet and connects the West Sacramento harbor to the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. International shipping access is provided via San Francisco's Golden Gate, 80 nautical miles southwest of the Port. Primary cargoes include exported rice and wood chips, and imported fertilizer, logs and lumber.

General Purpose Foreign Trade Zone #143 located at the Port of Sacramento allows companies to admit foreign and domestic merchandise into the zone for storage, exhibition, assembly, manufacture and processing without being subject to formal customs entry procedures, payment of customs duties, or federal excise taxes. Customs duties and excise taxes are deferred until the merchandise is transferred from the foreign trade zone. For more information, please visit www.portofsacramento.org.