by Associated Press Published: January 11,2012
Tags: cargo, dredging, economy, engineers, navigation, river, shipping, ships, silt, trade, transportation
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — The U.S. economy faces losing billions of dollars in trade unless the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget for dredging the Mississippi River is increased to prevent the river from silting in, according to a new study commissioned by businesses that rely on the river.
Every year, the corps keeps the channel open with [...] [...]
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 American [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 27,2011
Tags: distribution, grant, ports, railroads, rivers, shipping, ships, terminals, trains, transportation, waterways
BURNSVILLE — The Yellow Creek Port Authority has received a pair of state grants for a pair of improvement projects at the Northeast Mississippi Waterway Industrial Park.
Officials tell the Daily Corinthian the rail spur project is the first step in connecting the nearby Norfolk Southern line with the barge terminal. The first phase is expected [...] [...]
GULFPORT — The federal government is now demanding that Gulfport state port officials start to track the number and type of jobs a $621 million port expansion will create.
The port is expected to receive a total of $621 million in Community Development Block Grant funds for an 84-acre restoration and elevation of the West Pier [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 21,2011
Tags: federal government, highways, interstates, roads, shipping, state government, transportation, travel, trucking, trucks
JACKSON — Mississippi transportation officials oppose proposals to increase maximum truck weights and also oppose allowing a truck to haul three trailers.
Officials are in opposition to bills pending in the U.S. House and Senate that give states the option to increase weight limits to 97,000 pounds on interstate highways and raise the number of axles [...] [...]
WEST MISSISSIPPI — Tunica County officials have begun inspecting flooded properties in what is the first step in a process to allow people back into their homes.
Tunica County spokesman Larry Liddell said the water receded enough today for county inspectors to check some houses in the Cutoff community to see if they are structurally sound. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 18,2011
Tags: casinos, disaster, flooding, floods, gambling, gaming, hotels, natural disasters, restaurants, shipping, tourism
MISSISSIPPI RIVER — There has been some recent good news from the flooding Mississippi River as ship traffic has resumed and another riverboat casino announced it was reopening.
Shipping already curtailed because of flooding that is plaguing the Mississippi River was halted for much of yesterday when officials closed the waterway north of New Orleans in [...] [...]
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — Officials have signed an international pact to link the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway with goods shipped through an expanded Panama Canal.
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority.
The parties to the pact agree to joint marketing, information sharing and technology exchanges to promote the inland waterway.
A [...] [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — In 10 years, an additional 1.8 million trucks will be on the road; in 20 years, for every two trucks today, another one will be added. Already bottlenecks on major highways used by truckers every day are adding millions of dollars to the cost of food, goods, and manufacturing equipment for [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — The Port of Pascagoula’s public terminals moved 700,876 tons of cargo last year, almost 130,000 tons, or 16 percent, less than it moved in 2008, according to data released by the Jackson County Port Authority.
Port Director Mark McAndrews tells The Mississippi Press that in 2008, the port moved 829,736 tons of cargo, about [...] [...]
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