Alabama Port Authority

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Alabama Port Authority Launches MAX

The Alabama Port Authority on Feb. 23 reported rebranding and launching Mobile America Express (MAX), a service platform to help “strengthen the Port’s role as a catalyst for economic development statewide and

“CSX joined leaders from the Alabama Port of Mobile and the Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce to tour the Montgomery Intermodal Container Transfer Facility (ICTF), where construction on the new three mile CSX siding is making strong progress,” CSX reported via social media late last month. (Courtesy of CSX)

Intermodal Briefs: GPA, APA

Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) achieves its second busiest year ever in 2025, which includes handling a record 545,214 containers by rail. Also, construction progresses at the Alabama Port Authority’s (APA) Montgomery Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, which includes a new three‑mile-long CSX siding.

“With proven fluidity, the Port of Mobile continues to attract new routes, creating more direct services from the Far East to Mobile and enhancing our gateway’s connection to growing global markets,” said Alabama Port Authority Chief Commercial Officer Beth Branch. (Photograph Courtesy of Alabama Port Authority, via LinkedIn)

Intermodal Briefs: Alabama Port Authority, PA/NYNJ, Port of Virginia

Alabama Port Authority’s Port of Mobile breaks the 560,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) annual throughput threshold for the first time. Also, Port of New York and New Jersey (PA/NYNJ) moves more than 9 million TEUs in 2022, up 27% from pre-pandemic 2019; and construction of five new STS (ship-to-shore) cranes for the Port of Virginia is under way with delivery set for December 2024.