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THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE A L A B A M A OF THE ALABAMA STATE PORT AUTHORITY SEAPORT2019 VOL. I THANK YOU, ALABAMA! The Mobile Harbor receives state of Alabama funding through the Rebuild Alabama Act. GLOBAL LOGISTICS | SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT | PROJECT CARGO ALABAMA SEAPORT AEROSPACE · AUTOMOTIVE · CHEMICALS · ELECTRONICS · FOOD & BEVERAGE · FOREST PRODUCTS PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1927 • 2019 VOL. I FURNITURE · GENERAL & BULK CARGO · MACHINERY · STEEL · TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED ON THE COVER: The Mobile Harbor receives state of Alabama 4 18 funding through the Rebuild Alabama Act. See story on page 4 20 28 ALABAMA STATE PORT AUTHORITY The ALABAMA SEAPORT Magazine has been a trusted news and information resource P.O. Box 1588, Mobile, Alabama 36633, USA for customers, elected officials, service providers and communities for news regarding P: 251.441.7200 • F: 251.441.7216 • asdd.com Alabama’s only deepwater Port and its impact throughout the state of Alabama, James K. Lyons, Director, CEO region, nation and abroad. In order to refresh and expand readership of ALABAMA H.S. “Smitty” Thorne, Deputy Director, COO SEAPORT, the Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) now publishes the magazine Linda K. Paaymans, Secretary/Treasurer, CFO quarterly, in four editions appearing in winter, spring, summer and fall. Exciting things Danny Barnett, Manager, Human Resources are happening in business and industry throughout Alabama and the Southeastern FINANCIAL SERVICES U.S., and the Port Authority has been investing in its terminals to remain competitive Linda K. Paaymans, Secretary/Treasurer, CFO 251.441.7036 and meet the needs of shippers. Kevin Malpas, Manager, RISK MANAGEMENT 251.441.7118 Maria Williams, Manager, ACCOUNTING 251.441.7059 MARKETING Judith Adams, Vice President 251.441.7003 CONTENTS Sheri Collins, Manager, Public Affairs 251.441.7001 Rebuild Alabama ..............................................................................4 Kelly Sims, Manager, Real Estate 251.441.7113 Phillip Draughter, Manager, Theodore Operations 251.441.7514 Mobile Harbor Modernization Update ........................................6 Alabama Met Coal Exports Make Big Impact ...........................8 OPERATIONS Huntsville Bradley N. Ojard, Sr. Vice President, Operations 251.441.8133 APM Terminals Expansion Update ..............................................9 Bernard Scott, Manager, MCDUFFIE 251.441.7244 Elected Officals Port Tour ..............................................................11 Atlanta Scott Wallace, Maintenance Manager, MCDUFFIE 251.441.7316 Jackson Bill Inge, Manager, GENERAL CARGO/ CAP Port Tour ...................................................................................12 Birmingham Dallas-Fort Worth INTERMODAL OPERATIONS 251.441.7236 Airbus Groundbreaking A220 Bombardier ...............................14 F: 251.441.7231 Capt. Terry Gilbreath, HARBOR MASTER 251.441.7074 Seabulk Crawfish Boil .....................................................................17 Cliff Melton, General Manager, TERMINAL RAILWAY 251.441.7301 Mobile Chuck Camp, Director, Sales & Customer Service 251.441.8179 Made In Alabama: QuickTrick .......................................................18 Pascagoula Pensacola Gulfport Anna Ward, Director, Sales & Customer Service 251.441.7516 Port Calls: Alabama Dragon Boat Races ...................................20 Panama City Jimmie Flanagan, PORT POLICE CHIEF 251.441.7777 New Orleans F: 251.441.7172 Currents .............................................................................................22 Lester Davison, Supervisor, TRUCK CONTROL 251.441.7098 Pages from the Past ........................................................................27 TECHNICAL SERVICES Of Men and Ships: Stranded on an Enemy Island ....................28 Bob Harris, Vice President, Technical Services 251.441.7082 TRADE & DEVELOPMENT Frank Fogarty, Vice President 251.441.7201 Parrish Lawler, Director, TRADE & DEVELOPMENT 251.441.7146 Maria Mendez, Director, LATIN AMERICA SALES & TRADE DEVELOPMENT 251.441.7535 DEPARTMENTS Strengthened by Our Network of Agents Worldwide Arrivals/Sailings...................................................................32 An Equal Opportunity Employer Port of Mobile Directory......................................................................35 ALABAMA SEAPORT (ISSN 1524-8259) is published quarterly by the marketing department, Alabama State Port Authority. 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I 3 THE REBUILD ALABAMA ACT overnor Kay Ivey held a bill signing ceremony for the Rebuild Alabama Act on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, with Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama Ga bipartisan group of legislators including bill sponsors Rep. Bill Poole and Sen. Clyde Chambliss. The bill was passed ALABAMA STATE PORT AUTHORITY by the Alabama Senate on March 12, and the Alabama House of Bestor Ward, Chairman Representatives on March 8. The governor called the Alabama Term expires July 31, 2023 Legislature into a special session that was devoted solely to expansion helped explain how expansion would open up can lower box shipping rates for Alabama shippers. For Joe McCarty, 1st Vice Chair, addressing the state’s infrastructure issues. all corners of the state to more export opportunities and Alabama businesses, the Port of Mobile is the closer port Northern Region thus enhanced economic development. For example, 364 option. Use of the state’s seaport means less drayage/ Ivey’s Rebuild Alabama plan calls for a 10-cent increase on Term expires July 31, 2020 million pounds of poultry are shipped through the port trucking costs for shippers currently moving through the state’s fuel tax, rolled in over three years, to generate each year and how a new refrigerated facility outside the other ports in other states. The shorter trucking/drayage funding for improvements to the state’s road and bridge Daryl Dewberry, At Large Term expires July 31, 2019 container terminal’s gates could triple that capacity in a times also can provide for longer production periods network, and for shipping channel improvements at the Port year. Within 48 hours of the start of the special session, for shippers. A modernized seaport also attracts more of Mobile, the state’s only deep-water seaport. Up to $750,000 Horace Horn, Central Region the port allocations went from a concern to a must-have ocean carrier services looking to leverage faster vessel of the tax proceeds from gasoline and up to $230,000 of the Term expires July 31, 2019 provision. Once wary lawmakers were eager to support transit times and expand cargo capacity at the port due tax proceeds from diesel fuel shall be distributed first to the it, and even approved an increase in port allocations to ability to load ships to deeper depths. Alabama Highway Finance Corporation for payment towards Alvin K. Hope III, Southern Region from $10.1 to $11.7 million. Rep. Chris Pringle from Mobile $150 million in bond financing to cover the state’s cost share Term expires July 31, 2020 “We are deeply appreciative of the actions taken by the was key in securing the extra port authority funds. Governor and our state’s legislature during the special in the deepening and widening of the federal ship channel at Tim Parker III, Central Region Alabama’s seaport. Term expires July 31, 2023 “The Port of Mobile, Alabama’s only deep-water port, session,” said Lyons. “Their leadership along with the moves approximately 64 million tons of cargo each year,” committed investments in the port will not only help “The deepening and widening of the Port of Mobile is a Algernon "Al" Stanley, Northern Region said Ivey. “Deepening and widening the port will increase secure the competitiveness of our existing businesses in once-in-a-lifetime economic development opportunity,” said Term expires July 31, 2020 Alabama’s economic capability. This will enhance our the global market, but will also serve as a catalyst for U.S. Senator Richard Shelby. “This project has the ability to status as a primary industrial and agricultural hub in the new investment and development in the state.” transform Mobile and our state’s economy for the next 100 Ben C. Stimpson, 2nd Vice Chair, Southeast.” years.” Southern Region Term expires July 31, 2019 The project will deepen the Revenue generated by Rebuild Alabama would provide the river and bay channel to 50 feet crucial state funding match to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ The Honorable Sandy Stimpson, and the outer bar to 52 feet, efforts to modernize the ship channel. The proposed channel Mayor, City of Mobile (Ex-Officio) ease a bend and expand the improvements would take the seaport to 50 feet in depth and Term expires July 31, 2019 turning basin to accommodate create a widener in the channel to allow larger ships to pass.