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Port of Alabama to expand box terminal and add CN Rail link
THE US port of Alabama is to expand the capacity of its container terminal from 350,000 TEU to 475,000 TEU when the project is completed in 2016 and has plans to expand the terminal further to handle up to 1.3 million TEU annually in future.
A US$36 million intermodal container transfer facility is also to be built adjacent to the terminal.
Operator APM Terminals next year plans to install two super-post-Panamax cranes, which will add to the two post-Panamax cranes already in use, reported IHS Media.
Most of Mobile's container traffic now moves by truck, but the port hopes to develop intermodal traffic to and from the Mid-South and Midwest, according to CEO at the Alabama State Port Authority, Jimmy Lyons. "We believe that will be a sweet spot for us," he said.
By next year, Canadian National Railway will be moving intermodal traffic from Mobile into the US Midwest on a 2.5-day transit, said CN's executive vice president J J Ruest.
CN operates between New Orleans and the Midwest and CN's Mobile route connects with this route at Jackson, Mississippi.
Mobile's container traffic is supported by a steadily growing automotive industry in Alabama and surrounding states, and by exports of forest products, poultry and other commodities. The port's container terminal handled 237,266 TEU in fiscal 2014, ending September 30, 2014.
During the last several years, poultry exports have shifted rapidly from breakbulk to containers. That's a big reason Mobile plans to build a near-dock refrigerated warehouse for transloading poultry into containers for export.
The reefer transload warehouse would be part of a 160-acre logistics park the port authority is developing within a quarter-mile of its container terminal.
A US$36 million intermodal container transfer facility is also to be built adjacent to the terminal.
Operator APM Terminals next year plans to install two super-post-Panamax cranes, which will add to the two post-Panamax cranes already in use, reported IHS Media.
Most of Mobile's container traffic now moves by truck, but the port hopes to develop intermodal traffic to and from the Mid-South and Midwest, according to CEO at the Alabama State Port Authority, Jimmy Lyons. "We believe that will be a sweet spot for us," he said.
By next year, Canadian National Railway will be moving intermodal traffic from Mobile into the US Midwest on a 2.5-day transit, said CN's executive vice president J J Ruest.
CN operates between New Orleans and the Midwest and CN's Mobile route connects with this route at Jackson, Mississippi.
Mobile's container traffic is supported by a steadily growing automotive industry in Alabama and surrounding states, and by exports of forest products, poultry and other commodities. The port's container terminal handled 237,266 TEU in fiscal 2014, ending September 30, 2014.
During the last several years, poultry exports have shifted rapidly from breakbulk to containers. That's a big reason Mobile plans to build a near-dock refrigerated warehouse for transloading poultry into containers for export.
The reefer transload warehouse would be part of a 160-acre logistics park the port authority is developing within a quarter-mile of its container terminal.
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