Aerial view of the port of Mobile, Alabama

Cranes at the Port of Mobile.

The Port of Mobile, located in Mobile, Alabama, United States, is the only deep-water port in the state, and is the 11th largest in the United States. Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of Ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage ^[1] It is located along the Mobile River where it empties into Mobile Bay. The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. The Port of Mobile has public, deepwater terminals with direct access to 1,500 miles of inland and intracoastal waterways serving the Great Lakes, the Ohio and Tennessee river valleys (via the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway), and the Gulf of Mexico. The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. The Ohio River is the largest Tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234 mile (377 km artificial waterway that provides a connecting link between the Tennessee The Gulf of Mexico ( Spanish: Golfo de México) is the ninth largest Body of water in the world The Alabama State Port Authority owns and operates the public terminals at the Port of Mobile. The public terminals handle containerized, bulk, break bulk, roll-on/roll-off, and heavy lift cargoes. Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers Bulk cargo is Commodity Cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities See also Merchant ship Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro Ships are ferries designed to carry wheeled Cargo such as The port is also home to private bulk terminal operators. The container, general cargo and bulk facilities have immediate access to two interstate systems and five Class I railroads. The Dwight D Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System (or simply the Interstate System) A Class I railroad in the United States and Mexico, or a Class I rail carrier in Canada, is a large freight Railroad, as classified Additionally, the Central Gulf Railroad operates from the port as a rail ferry service to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, in Mexico. See also Merchant ship A train ferry is a Ship designed to carry railway vehicles Coatzacoalcos is a major port city in the southern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz, on the Coatzacoalcos River. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. ^[2]

In 2005, the Port of Mobile had a trade volume of 57,664,833 tons. ^[1] The Port of Mobile is the largest break bulk forest products port in the United States, and the Alabama State Port Authority's McDuffie Terminal is the second largest coal terminal in the United States and largest import coal terminal. ^[3]

Since 2000, the Alabama State Port Authority has undergone nearly $500M in capital improvements and expansion projects to serve containerized, bulk and break bulk commodities. Improvements include a new rail ferry terminal, new warehousing, a new container terminal, and expansions at McDuffie. See also Merchant ship A train ferry is a Ship designed to carry railway vehicles

See also

• List of North American ports

References

External links

• Alabama State Port Authority website