CN signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA), which owns the public terminals at the Port of Mobile, intended to drive increased supply chain efficiency and a greater share of transportation markets in North America.
A key signatory to CN’s MOU for the Port of Mobile gateway is APM Terminals Mobile, LLC. APM Terminals operates a 95-acre, deep-sea container terminal at the Port of Mobile. The state-of-the-art container terminal is adjacent to the intermodal rail facility now under construction. The ASPA is building the USD 32 million rail terminal that will permit the direct and fluid transfer of containers between vessel and rail car in the spring of 2016.
“We believe the agreement – similar to ones CN has signed with all of Canada’s major ports and intermodal terminals – will extend the geographic reach of the Port of Mobile so that we all can take advantage of potential new container rail traffic following completion of the Panama Canal expansion project in 2016,” JJ Ruest, CN executive vice-president and chief marketing officer, said.
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