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Cairo Port District Signs Labor Agreement

May 4, 2021

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 To Open Houston Facility

May 4, 2021

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

Jeffersonville Port To Handle Cargo For Cement Plant Expansion Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville is receiving large equipment and plant parts for a $600 million cement plant expansion by barge and storing them before they are hauled by truck to the Lehigh Cement plant in Mitchell, Ind. (photo courtesy of Ports of Indiana)

Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville is receiving large equipment and plant parts for a $600 million cement plant expansion by barge and storing them before they are hauled by truck to the Lehigh Cement plant in Mitchell, Ind. (photo courtesy of Ports of Indiana)

Jeffersonville Port To Handle Cargo For Cement Plant Expansion

April 30, 2021

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

Langenstein Named Port NOLA Board Chairman

April 26, 2021

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

MPR Invests In Expanded Transloading Operations Along Ohio River Mountaineer Products Inc., doing business as MPR Supply Chain Solutions, has purchased a 50-acre Ohio River site with rail frontage on the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Norfolk Southern railways to use as part of its transloading business. (Photo by Sherri Butler)

Mountaineer Products Inc., doing business as MPR Supply Chain Solutions, has purchased a 50-acre Ohio River site with rail frontage on the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Norfolk Southern railways to use as part of its transloading business. (Photo by Sherri Butler)

MPR Invests In Expanded Transloading Operations Along Ohio River

April 21, 2021

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

Wilzbacher Announces Retirement From Mount Vernon Port Phil Wilzbacher

Wilzbacher Announces Retirement From Mount Vernon Port

April 21, 2021

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

Tenn-Tom Port Hires Federal Marine Terminals To Be Stevedoring, Logistics Services Provider

April 21, 2021

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

America’s Central Port Upgrades Buildings

April 20, 2021

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 Grant Program Seeks Applicants

April 20, 2021

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

Lineage Logistics Breaks Ground On Expansion At Port NOLA Officials—including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Port NOLA President and CEO Brandy Christian, center—break ground April 6 for the $42 million expansion project. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Officials—including Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Port NOLA President and CEO Brandy Christian, center—break ground April 6 for the $42 million expansion project. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Lineage Logistics Breaks Ground On Expansion At Port NOLA

April 20, 2021

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, Port NOLA President and CEO Brandy Christian, and Greg Lehmkuhl, president and CEO of Lineage Logistics, gathered at the New Orleans Cold Storage (NOCS) facility… Read More