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Port officials give nod to sports complex study

Associated Press — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:47:19 +0000

GULFPORT — The Port of Gulfport has agreed to allow a company to study placing a sports complex on an approximately 28-acre parcel on the port property. The Sun Herald reports yesterday’s vote by the Port Commission allows the group, known as Overtime Sports, only to study building something at the port. It doesn’t approve [...]

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Baseball stadium/entertainment venue proposed at State Port

Associated Press — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:02:30 +0000

GULFPORT — A family entertainment venue that would include a baseball stadium, theater, bowling alley, restaurants and shops is being proposed for the state port in Gulfport. The Sun Herald reports Tim Bennett, a partner in relocating the Atlanta Braves AA Mississippi Braves team to Pearl, has been looking for eight years for the right [...]

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Eutaw Construction suing Port Commission over contract

Associated Press — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:58:18 +0000

GULFPORT — A contract dispute has put on hold elevation work at the state port in Gulfport. The port’s West Pier is being expanded, elevated and updated to house a modern containerized cargo operation. When completed, the pier will include 180 acres elevated for storm-surge protection by 15 feet, to 25 feet above sea level. [...]

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Port looking to work around hundreds of nesting least terns

Associated Press — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:19:40 +0000

GULFPORT — Hundreds of least terns are nesting on the state port’s West Pier in Gulfport. Port Restoration director Joe Conn tells the Sun Herald the port is submitting a plan to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife to work around the birds. The port’s West Pier is being expanded, elevated and updated to house a [...]

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Bryant signs bill removing port from state oversight

Associated Press — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:18:08 +0000

GULFPORT — Legislation that removes the Port of Gulfport and its $570 million post-Hurricane Katrina expansion and renovation from state government oversight has been signed by the governor. House Bill 1091 took effect with Gov. Phil Bryant’s signature this past week. The bill exempts the Port of Gulfport from state-agency bidding and purchasing oversight [...]

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Barbour: U.S. ports need investment, strategy policy

MBJ Staff — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:16:14 +0000

BILOXI — Former Gov. Haley Barbour, speaking to a regional gathering of Gulf states harbor pilots, called for a “bias for action and a sense of urgency…for increased U.S. investment in waterways infrastructure and a national strategic policy to prepare and equip U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard for increased [...]

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W.C. Fore Trucking lands $19.1M port elevation project

Associated Press — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:54:28 +0000

GULFPORT — A $19.1 million contract has been awarded by the Port of Gulfport to elevate the first 43 acres of the West Pier to 25 feet. The Sun Herald reports W.C. Fore Trucking Inc. of Biloxi will be hauling roughly 200 loads of dirt a day to the Port of Gulfport. Officials say it [...]

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State Port officials report stronger cargo volume last year

MBJ Staff — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:45:42 +0000

GULFPORT — The Port of Gulfport reports stronger cargo volume in 2011, handling in excess of 216,000 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units), which represents an increase of 3.6 percent compared to 2010. Overall, more than 2.2 million tons of cargo moved through Gulfport, representing a year-over-year increase of 3.2 percent. “We experienced solid growth in [...]

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State waiting for study to route port highway

Associated Press — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:58:50 +0000

GULFPORT — The state is awaiting a port study before setting the final route for the southern end of a limited-access highway that will run from an expanded port to Interstate 10. Department of Transportation director Melinda McGrath said MDOT wants to take into account community concerns. The Sun Herald reports work already has started [...]

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Port faces major challenges this year

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:20:30 +0000

PASCAGOULA — Port of Pascagoula leaders will focus on finding alternate cargoes to replace those not expected to rebound this year and sparking activity at the redeveloped South Terminal, Port Director Mark McAndrews said. McAndrews told a civic club in Pascagoula that last year the port began to promote itself as a gateway from Latin [...]

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