The Jeffco Port Authority has completed the acquisition of the 18 acre former Doe Run site - setting the stage for the container port https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/bus ... 0e306.html
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An article without a paywall --
Jefferson County Port Authority purchases Herculaneum port property for $20 million
https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/port ... 7071a.html
Jefferson County Port Authority purchases Herculaneum port property for $20 million
https://www.myleaderpaper.com/news/port ... 7071a.html
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Looking back through the thread, I don't think this got posted. Apologies if it did and I missed it:
https://www.thefreightway.com/wp-conten ... ojects.pdf
Interesting list of priorities. The Madison 3rd main is still on the list, and apparently funded, so I expect they'll break ground on that pretty quickly. Also replacing the MLK. At the very bottom of the list is discussion of reconnecting alternate bridges downtown. I suppose I shouldn't find it too surprising, as the thing is getting older, bit it sounds like the PSB might be nearing the end of its useful life and they're looking at alternatives while replacing it. Wish there was more detail on that one. They mention a companion to the Stan Span.
https://www.thefreightway.com/wp-conten ... ojects.pdf
Interesting list of priorities. The Madison 3rd main is still on the list, and apparently funded, so I expect they'll break ground on that pretty quickly. Also replacing the MLK. At the very bottom of the list is discussion of reconnecting alternate bridges downtown. I suppose I shouldn't find it too surprising, as the thing is getting older, bit it sounds like the PSB might be nearing the end of its useful life and they're looking at alternatives while replacing it. Wish there was more detail on that one. They mention a companion to the Stan Span.
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I REALLY wish we had a more iconic Poplar Street Bridge, though I also do like the unobstructed view.
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^Solution: an arched bridge. Where have I seen one of those before? 
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Would love if they did look at replacing the PSB is if they can add dedicated passenger rail tracks with it. Could shift Amtrak service to it as part of helping improve time and reliability on service. Also could have tracks for any potential HSR and possible regional rail services. This would also help increase freight and passenger train capacity by not having to share lines.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑Dec 28, 2024^Solution: an arched bridge. Where have I seen one of those before?
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^Great to hear! And better than the average by a factor of four?! Impressive!
^ Agree, good news. Spill a little cold water in the fact that it helps your lock free and ice free port. Hopefully tariffs won't put a hurt on the numbers as I believe a lot of grain products moving through is for export. But could be mistaken.
What will be interesting is to see if inland container movement can take hold and once again the regional freightway with its advantages will have a huge opportunity. However, I still think it is still less then fifty fifty chance that inland container is happening with so much deep draft container capacity, dockside container to rail investments and more nimble rail service everywhere else.. The biggest or immediate issue I see is that Port of New Orleans is pretty far behind in capacity & capabilities compared to its Gulf Coast peers in Port of Houston (just shear capacity and container facilities) and the same can be said for Alabama State Ports in Mobile (not so much size of port but 5 class I rail connections and a state effort to push rail improvements throughout AL heading north out of Mobile)
What will be interesting is to see if inland container movement can take hold and once again the regional freightway with its advantages will have a huge opportunity. However, I still think it is still less then fifty fifty chance that inland container is happening with so much deep draft container capacity, dockside container to rail investments and more nimble rail service everywhere else.. The biggest or immediate issue I see is that Port of New Orleans is pretty far behind in capacity & capabilities compared to its Gulf Coast peers in Port of Houston (just shear capacity and container facilities) and the same can be said for Alabama State Ports in Mobile (not so much size of port but 5 class I rail connections and a state effort to push rail improvements throughout AL heading north out of Mobile)
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Our port’s bread and butter is corn and soybean exports. Most of which is exported to China and Mexico. So yeah, probably not great for our port or farmers.
Likely. Farmers got a huge bailout to make up for the loss of exports last imie.
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The new port in Jefferson County is not about exports as much as it is about imports.
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Good developments coming out of the Freightway.
$30MM Gulf Stream investment is complete including 200 new jobs (Gulfstream’s total StL employment is now almost 700).
https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/p ... -expansion
Ingram Marine Group is investing $50M in St. Louis Ports. Improvements are coming to Ingram’s two terminals adjacent the MLK bridge and Ingram plans to BUILD A NEW RAIL TO BARGE TERMINAL in Illinois.
Great news all around.
With the massive economies of scale that exist to cheaply ship bulk commodities (particularly grain) to StL, it would be great to see the stakeholders push for more value-add production to be built in StL.
We have some with the various milling operations, ICL’s protein facility, the bio-fuels refinery in Granite City but I feel like we could/should be a powerhouse here especially given our proximity to Bunge and ADM.
$30MM Gulf Stream investment is complete including 200 new jobs (Gulfstream’s total StL employment is now almost 700).
https://www.aviationpros.com/aircraft/p ... -expansion
Ingram Marine Group is investing $50M in St. Louis Ports. Improvements are coming to Ingram’s two terminals adjacent the MLK bridge and Ingram plans to BUILD A NEW RAIL TO BARGE TERMINAL in Illinois.
Great news all around.
With the massive economies of scale that exist to cheaply ship bulk commodities (particularly grain) to StL, it would be great to see the stakeholders push for more value-add production to be built in StL.
We have some with the various milling operations, ICL’s protein facility, the bio-fuels refinery in Granite City but I feel like we could/should be a powerhouse here especially given our proximity to Bunge and ADM.
Here’s another great press release from last summer that the BJ never picked up (probably because Crysalis didn’t pay them).
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-lou ... ation-fuel
Pretty pathetic for a business journal to miss $240MM in private investment 2 miles from the arch.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-lou ... ation-fuel
Pretty pathetic for a business journal to miss $240MM in private investment 2 miles from the arch.
Trains magazine has been highlighting parts of UP-NS merger package that was submitted. A pretty good summary on expected consolidation of UP & NS facilities at gateways locations including St. Louis.
https://www.trains.com/pro/freight/clas ... ay-cities/
Through traffic handled at Norfolk Southern’s Luther Yard will be shifted to Alton & Southern’s Gateway Yard, but Luther will continue to serve as an intermodal terminal and to handle manifest traffic for local NS customers. As in Chicago, the railroads say blocking of traffic elsewhere will decrease classification work for the Alton & Southern, while using the Alton & Southern to build blocks of eastbound traffic will eliminate the need for the A&S to transfer some traffic to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis.
Automotive traffic that currently goes to a Norfolk Southern facility in Wentzville, Mo., will instead go to UP’s Centreville facility.
https://www.trains.com/pro/freight/clas ... ay-cities/
Through traffic handled at Norfolk Southern’s Luther Yard will be shifted to Alton & Southern’s Gateway Yard, but Luther will continue to serve as an intermodal terminal and to handle manifest traffic for local NS customers. As in Chicago, the railroads say blocking of traffic elsewhere will decrease classification work for the Alton & Southern, while using the Alton & Southern to build blocks of eastbound traffic will eliminate the need for the A&S to transfer some traffic to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis.
Automotive traffic that currently goes to a Norfolk Southern facility in Wentzville, Mo., will instead go to UP’s Centreville facility.