Alabama State Port Authority
The Alabama State Port Authority’s Port of Mobile has completed a 400-foot dock extension at its container-handling facility, operated by APM Terminals, allowing simultaneous berthing of two post-Panamax vessels. The extension was part of a $50 million, third-phase expansion adding 20 acres of new yard space, fender upgrades and additional outbound gates at the container terminal.
The container terminal, as well as two other lower harbor Port of Mobile terminals serving steel and coal shippers, are to soon have alongside depths lowered by 5 feet to 50 feet as part of a $274.3 million channel deepening and widening endeavor. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is to let contracts later this year for the project, which is advancing with federal and state funding.
Early this year, the ASPA and AutoMOBILE International Terminal – a joint venture of interests based in Argentina and Chile – signed a concession agreement for a $60 million, 57-acre finished automobile roll-on/roll-off terminal at the port’s main multimodal complex. Its annual throughput is designed to be 150,000 units. Construction is under way, with completion scheduled for early 2021.
