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Scaled-back port plan offers chance of timely completion

Ted Carter — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:13:32 +0000

Eager to shorten the time frame for upgrading and enlarging the Port of Gulfport, port commissioners last Tuesday agreed to scale back plans to elevate the West Pier to 25 feet as part of a $500 million-plus restoration and expansion of Mississippi’s main seaport. The choice ahead is whether to elevate to 12 feet or [...]

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Search firm likely to lead effort to fill port chief job

Ted Carter — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 05:01:37 +0000

The Mississippi State Port Commission expects to hire a search firm to recruit a replacement for Don Allee, who departed his post as executive director and CEO of the Mississippi State Port Authority Nov. 2. Allee ran the Port of Gulfport for 11 years, having previously served as a port executive in Freeport, Texas, and [...]

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Coming home, part 2- “Reshoring” could reenergize U.S. manufacturing

Ted Carter — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:01:55 +0000

As director of Mississippi State University’s Franklin Furniture Institute, Bill Martin has an up-close familiarity with the American “reshoring” trend, especially its implications for furniture manufacturing in Mississippi. He’s not convinced the trend of factories leaving China to return to the United States has arrived in Mississippi, but change is under way and the Magnolia [...]

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Q&A: Carol Hardwick touts MEDC’s new exchange, Y.P. programs

Amy McCullough — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:07:47 +0000

Carol Hardwick is executive director and COO of Jackson-based Mississippi Economic Development Council, which serves economic development and chamber professionals statewide. Hardwick studied political science at Millsaps College before working for Sen. Thad Cochran, coordinating to his 1990 and 1996 campaigns and handling PAC fundraising. Hardwick joined MEDC in 2002. She and husband, Phil, a [...]

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Rebounding Gulfport positioning itself for new trade era’s arrival

Ted Carter — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:00:17 +0000

Completion of the Port of Gulfport’s rebuilding should coincide well with the expected trade growth from the expanded Panama Canal as well as Latin America, port officials say. Port director Don Allee may not get the 50-foot shipping channel the Port of Gulfport would need to take full advantage of a massive increase in Asian [...]

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Exporting education

Wally Northway — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:26:09 +0000

Southern Miss a major player in deal with Panama On Aug. 2, a delegation of state leaders, including Gov. Haley Barbour, were on hand for the signing of an historic memorandum of understanding between the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport and the Panama Canal Authority. The agreement, the first of its kind between [...]

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