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Port director outlines $1.3B-plus investments, harbor modernization, and new intermodal links
Summary
Port Director John Driscoll briefed the committee on port economic impact, ongoing harbor deepening and widening, container-terminal expansions, coal-terminal investments, rail connectivity, and a planned Montgomery intermodal facility.
John Driscoll, director of the Port Authority, gave the committee an update on investments and projects at the port, including harbor modernization, terminal expansion, rail connections and new intermodal facilities.
Driscoll said a 2022 economic-impact study attributed about $98 billion in statewide economic value to the port gateway and linked roughly 351,000 jobs to port-related activity; tax impacts for 2022 were reported at about $2.4 billion. He said those figures will likely be updated in a future study.
Driscoll described a $366 million harbor modernization program to widen and deepen the channel to 50 feet; the state has committed up to $150 million to the project. He said work is on schedule though some dredging phases have shifted, and that berth…
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