Tag: Pinto Island

Cargo cranes and containers at a working seaport

Port Director Jimmy Lyons Briefed Sunrise Rotary as Mobile’s Docks Boomed

James Bullard, February 11, 2009

Alabama State Port Authority chief Jimmy Lyons addressed the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in February 2009, with a $100 million Pinto Island terminal under way to serve the ThyssenKrupp steel mill.

Baldwin County

A tall suspension bridge spanning a river used by cargo ships

The Raphael Semmes Bridge: One Man’s Downriver Answer to Mobile’s I-10 Fight

James Bullard, May 3, 2007

A 77-year-old retired federal contracting officer who once taught Jimmy Buffett to sail proposed a straight east-west I-10 crossing over Pinto Island, 360 feet above the river, that he said would satisfy every warring interest.