Port of Mobile Outpaces Budget as Steel, Coal and Rail Traffic Surge
The Alabama Port Authority is $30 million ahead of budget through June, driven by record coal, steel and rail traffic, even as wet coal shipments drove up June expenses.
Refrigerated cargo distribution center opens at Port of Mobile
A refrigerated cargo distribution center officially opened Wednesday in Mobile, billed as one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. Baltimore-based MTC Logistics expects to eventually employ…
Austal USA breaks ground on $100 million steel manufacturing line in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA will break ground Friday on a new steel manufacturing line at its Mobile shipyard, a roughly $100 million expansion that the company says will let…
USA economist Donald Epley says ‘buy local’ could keep $21 billion in Mobile region
Buying local could be worth more than $21 billion a year to the Mobile-area economy, according to a University of South Alabama economist who recently laid out the region’s “importing”…