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Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon ‘Next Generation’ Terminal Upgrades

By Eric Haun recently completed a $2 million capital improvement cargo – more than any other port in the state of Indiana.

project aims to attract more cargo to one of the na- Recent upgrades including a new concrete ?oor and an tion’s largest inland ports. overhead gantry crane at one of its 40-year-old general cargo A

Situated 153 miles from the con?uence of the Ohio and terminal facilities are geared toward steering steel barges to

Mississippi Rivers, the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon con- Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, port of?cials are hoping.

nects the Ohio River Valley region’s agriculture, coal and “We planned the capital improvement projects around a manufacturing industries to the rest of the world via year- key component of our targeted marketing strategy to attract round access to the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes through a steel-related facility to the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon’s the inland waterways system. 544-acre megasite,” says Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon Port

Each year, more than 3,600 barges, 160,000 trucks and Director Phil Wilzbacher.

37,000 railcars typically pass through the port, moving ap- Wilzbacher says the “megasite” is one of the largest green proximately 5 million tons of bulk commodities and general ?eld industrial sites available at a public port in America’s

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