Evansville Western Railway

The Port of Savannah handled 486,000 TEUs in September, gaining 8% or 35,280 TEUs, over same month last year, GPA reported Oct. 23. (GPA Photograph)

Intermodal Briefs: GPA, Ports of Indiana

September volumes are up 8% at Georgia Ports Authority’s Port of Savannah. Also, Tanco Terminals is expanding its liquid barge facility at the Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville, where it provides marine, rail ,and truck access for liquid asphalt and fertilizer products.

Union Pacific’s Ryan Wee, Manager-Industrial Development (right), with Manner Polymers President and CEO Raj Bhargava. (Photograph Courtesy of UP)

Class I Briefs: UP, BNSF

Union Pacific (UP) readies to serve Manner Polymer’s new solar-powered manufacturing facility in Mount Vernon, Ill. Also, BNSF welcomes the first tenant to its logistics center in Cleveland, Tex.

Ports of Indiana-Jeffersonville (Ports of Indiana Photograph)

Lumina to Launch Processing Facility at Ports of Indiana

The Ports of Indiana on Nov. 12 reported that Lumina Sustainable Materials will invest an initial $14.3 million to establish a multi-mineral processing facility, logistics base, and test laboratory at the ports’ rail-served Jeffersonville, Ind.,