Home/American Shipper/Port of L.A. approves lease for BNSF American ShipperIntermodal Port of L.A. approves lease for BNSF FreightWaves Staff · Friday, March 22, 2013 Facebook Twitter/X LinkedInCurrently, import containers that don’t move inland from the dock as a block on unit trains are trucked 24 miles to BNSF’s Hobart Yard. The new intermodal facility would reduce about 1.3 million truck trips annually.