It’s been more than 50 years since the Port of Vicksburg was founded on the Yazoo River Diversion Canal, north of where the Yazoo River meets the Mississippi River in… Read More
Ports & Terminals
Developers of a port under development in Cairo, Ill., signed a project labor agreement April 27 with the Illinois AFL-CIO guaranteeing at least 500 union jobs in building it. The… Read More
Tri Coastal Trading, a scrap metal processor formerly headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., announced April 16 that it will open its first fully owned ferrous scrap processing and barge-loading facility in… Read More
Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville will receive more than 30 barges by June 30 destined for a cement plant undergoing a $600 million expansion. Lehigh Cement Inc. is shipping large pieces of… Read More
During the March 25 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, board members elected William Langenstein as chairman. Other officers elected during the meeting include… Read More
An Ohio transloading business has purchased 50 acres along the Ohio River with frontage on two rail lines as part of the first, $9.5 million phase of a multimodal project. Read More
Phil Wilzbacher, the longest serving port director in the Ports of Indiana’s 60-year history, is retiring effective April 20. Wilzbacher, 62, is retiring after 19 years of service at the… Read More
Montreal-based Federal Marine Terminals Inc. (FMT) has signed an operating agreement with Port Itawamba, located on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Tenn-Tom) near the city of Fulton, Miss. With the agreement, Federal… Read More
As part of its program of continuous improvements, America’s Central Port, located at Granite City, Ill., just north of St. Louis and across the Mississippi River, has upgraded and renovated… Read More
Kentucky has allocated $500,000 toward its public riverports as part of this year’s Kentucky Riverport Improvement grant program and issued a call for applicants. Public riverports located in Kentucky that… Read More
