On April 20, 2017, APM Terminals announced that THE Alliance ( container shipping companies group) launches in May 2017 the AL4 trade route between Port Mobile and ports in Northern Europe. A new steel terminal was also built to serve Calvert Alabama's stainless and carbon steel processing facility. A new rail ferry terminal and a new container terminal were also built. In the period 2010-2015, the port invested over USD 0,5 billion in redevelopment projects, including port infrastructure improvements, land acquisitions, warehousing, constructing new rail depots and inter-modal yards, also improvements and enhancements of cargo terminals (serving oil tankers and gas carriers) and cargo shipping vessels (containerized, bulk, breakbulk). Mobile AL was ranked USA's 4th largest coal export port for 2012, with the majority of the exports being shipped to Europe and South America. It is also the country's largest import coal terminal. McDuffie Terminal is among USA's largest coal terminals. Mobile is USA's largest seaport for handling breakbulk forest products. The CG Railway (terminal railroad) operates from the Mobile Alabama port a rail ferry service to Coatzacoalcos (Mexico).
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All container, general cargo and bulk cargo terminals have dirrect access to two US interstate railway systems plus 5 "Class I" US railroads. The port also has private bulk terminal operators. All public terminals can handle various types of cargo ships (including container / boxships, bulk and breakbulk carriers, Ro-Ro ships (roll-on / roll-off). The port and all its facilities are owned and managed by Alabama State Port Authority. These waterways also serve USA's Great Lakes, and the rivers Ohio and Tennessee (via Tenn-Tom / Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway with length 377 km / 234 mi). The port has deep-water terminals which all have direct access to Alabama's inland and intracoastal waterways. The port is along Mobile River - where the river empties into the bay.
Port Mobile is a deepwater seaport (Alabama's only one) ranked in 2010 as the USA's 12th largest cargo port by tonnage (shipping trade volume over 55,7 million tons).
Another fresh idea is boat touring Mobile Bay's estuary, home to over 250 species of birds, 230 species of fish and wildlife, including black bears, alligators, bald eagles, osprey. Wildlife fans should visit Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island. Mobile is the birthplace of the USA's Mardi Gras (aka America's Family Mardi Gras). Fort Gaines is the battle site of the famed Battle of the Bay in August 1864. Fort Conde is a partial replica of an original 18th-century French fort. The city covers an area of approx 413 km2 (159 mi2) and has population around 195,000 (metro around 415,000).Īmong the city's most popular tourist attractions are Bellingrath Gardens and Home, antebellum home Oakleigh Mansion, Cox-Deasy Cottage Museum and Battleship USS Alabama. It is located on Mobile Bay (Gulf of Mexico's inlet) which is formed by Fort Morgan Peninsula (on the east) and Dauphin Island (on the west). Port Mobile AL is Alabama USA's only seaport.
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