by Associated Press Published: May 17,2011
Tags: flooding, floods, ports, river traffic
NATCHEZ — Record flooding has caused authorities to close the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez because barge traffic could put more pressure on the levees. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough said the port was closed Monday, leaving two vessels waiting to head north and one waiting to go south. The U.S. economy [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 9,2010
Tags: investigation, maritime, ports
OCEAN SPRINGS — Ocean Springs harbormaster Lesley Hamm has been fired amid a state auditor’s investigation into how public funds were spent. The Mississippi Press reports that Jackson County Board of Supervisors president Mike Mangum confirmed that Hamm was fired Tuesday. Lisa Shoemaker, spokeswoman for the state auditor’s office, told the newspaper that an investigation [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: September 8,2010
Tags: cargo, ports, retail, transportation
WASHINGTON — Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 16 percent in September over the same month last year, but 2010 has already hit its peak and numbers will decline through the remainder of the year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: August 13,2010
Tags: education, higher education, ports, transportation
HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) and the Technological University of Panama have signed a memorandum of understanding, opening the door for enhanced collaboration on new academic and economic development opportunities. “This trip is all about building relationships with one of the most dynamic countries in the Western Hemisphere,” said Dr. Martha Saunders, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 12,2010
Tags: ports, transportation
PASCAGOULA — Port of Pascagoula officials have been told they’ll have a new 20-year strategic plan in hand by December. Lori Baer, from the Sunrise, Fla., office of engineering and architecture firm AECOM, attended a Board of Commissioners meeting Aug. 10 and gave an update on the company’s progress with the plan. Officials say the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 12,2010
Tags: construction, freight, harbor, maritime, ports, transportation
OCEAN SPRINGS — Construction will begin tomorrow on the 3,000-square-foot office for the Ocean Springs harbor master and staff. It will replace the house that had been converted to an office and then destroyed by Katrina. Officials will hold a pile-driving ceremony on the site at 9 a.m. to kick off the rebuilding that is [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: June 13,2010
Tags: Gulf oil spill, Mississippi River, ports
While the Gulf oil spill has the Coast waiting and wondering, it also has ratcheted up concerns along the Mississippi River. Handling hundreds of millions of tons of goods annually, a stoppage or interruption of river traffic could create an economic disaster for the state and nation on an industrial scale. So far, the [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: June 3,2010
Tags: engineering, ports, transportation
RIDGELAND and GULFPORT — Michael Baker Jr. Inc., an engineering unit of Michael Baker Corporation, has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport to provide coastal engineering design and other services in support of the $570-million Port of Gulfport Restoration Program, an extensive effort to [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: May 21,2010
Tags: ports, transportation
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Inland and Gulf Coast ports in Mississippi pumped more than $6.2 billion into the state’s economy in 2009, producing 46,000 jobs and a payroll worth more than $1.8 billion, according to statistics released yesterday at a news conference held in conjunction with the Spring Meeting of the American Association of State Highway [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — The Port of Pascagoula has set up a decontamination station to check incoming vessels for oil on their hulls. Port Director Mark McAndrews says the station is set up at the channel entrance, and any ship that has oil on its hull is being cleaned before entering the channel. McAndrews told The Mississippi [...] [...]
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