Choctaw Point Intermodal Rail Facility on Track Mobile, Alabama - The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) welcomed APM Terminals’ announced plans to add two new super-Post Panamax cranes and expand the container facility at the Port of Mobile.  The Port Authority and APM Terminals partnered in 2005 to construct Phase I of the container terminal at Choctaw Point to provide customers with access to global networks covering all possible trade routes to and from the Port of Mobile.  Under the concession agreement, APM Terminals operates the terminal. “Given our continued growth since the container terminal’s opening in 2008, the timing of this expansion is excellent given more and more shippers and carriers are finding Mobile a cost effective, customer service oriented option,” said James K. Lyons, chief executive of the Alabama State Port Authority.  APM Terminals $40 million infrastructure investment will improve approximately 20 acres to increase the container terminal’s capacity to 475,000 TEUs.  APM Terminal’s expansion will compliment approximately $50 million invested by the Port Authority to construct an Intermodal Container Transfer Facility that could be serviced by five Class I railroads, including the Canadian National, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and BNSF.  The Intermodal Container Transfer Facility is under construction with a first quarter 2016 completion.  The Alabama State Port Authority owns and operates the State of Alabama’s public, deep-water port facilities at the Port of Mobile. The Authority’s container, general cargo and bulk facilities have immediate access to two interstate systems, five Class 1 railroads, and nearly 15,000 miles of inland waterway connections.