Port Bienville Shortline Railroad

“Years of planning, coordination, and work have come to fruition as Watco’s new 25,000-square-foot warehouse at Port Birmingham in Alabama is officially open for business,” the company reported in the July edition of its employee magazine, The Dispatch. (Watco Photograph)
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Industrial Development Briefs: Port Bienville, Port Birmingham

Watco, a transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kans., opens a new warehouse at Alabama’s Port Birmingham. Also, Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission (HCPHC) acquires the former Solvay property within Port Bienville Industrial Park in Mississippi.

The new RESTORE Dock at Port Bienville Industrial Park includes two short line track extensions. (HCPHC photo)

HCPHC Unveils RESTORE Dock at Port Bienville

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, U.S. Congressman Steven Palazzao, local officials and industry representatives joined on Oct. 12 at Port Bienville Industrial Park in Bay St. Louis, Miss., to cut the ribbon on a new maritime dock and railroad facility, known as the RESTORE DOCK, which will be used to move about 480,000 tons of material across Port Bienville’s public and private docks each year.