The phrase "a staging point for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location or situation that serves as a temporary stop or preparation area for a larger process or event.
Example: "The small town served as a staging point for the expedition before they ventured into the wilderness."
Alternatives: "a launchpad for" or "a base for".
That border city is a staging point for drug shipments into El Paso.
Croatia, moreover, is widely seen as a staging point for arms supplies to Bosnia, again infringing the United Nations embargo.
This had not previously been a major market so at first we assumed this was a staging point for China.
The field is also a staging point for patrols above northern Iraq by American and British planes.
It was traveling to Mactan air base off Cebu Island, a staging point for American forces moving in and out of the country.
Not only did locals consider the 2.3-acre property to be public property, the county used the land as a staging point for dredging operations.
For the fresh-faced men and women stationed here, though, Marine camps like this one -- potential staging points for an announced, but still uncertain, war -- have been transformed since Sept. 11 as surely as any place back home.
On the first leg of the trip, Obama found himself in a military gym in Kuwait, a major staging point for Americans going to the war zones.
While the Aleutian Islands were seen as a potential staging point for invasions by either side, this possibility was dismissed owing to the islands' dismal climate.
The results suggest that the T3 B cell subset is a major staging point for B cells undergoing apoptotic death, since this model can account for nearly all TR B cell losses.
In the 1940s Darwin became an important staging point for US sailors fighting in the Pacific; the USS Peary was sunk in Darwin harbour during the Japanese bombing on 19 February 1942, killing 88 Americans on board.
