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Nucor and Port of Indiana to Develop Steel Barge Shuttle at Jeffersonville Port
Written by Sandy Williams
June 22, 2020
The Ports of Indiana has been awarded a Marine Highway Grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration to develop a steel barge shuttle with Nucor Steel at its Jeffersonville port.
The project will allow barge shipments of steel coils from Ghent, Ky., to the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville. The $778,766 project includes the construction of a 1.2-acre outdoor storage area and the purchase of a forklift for handling the coils. MARAD has awarded $545,136 to cover the funding gap needed to build the storage facility and buy the forklift. Ports of Indiana is providing the local funding match and will manage the grant administration.
Project partners also include Watco Co., Campbell Transportation Co., Voss Clark, Mill Steel and OKI Regional Council of Governments, who served as the original Marine Highway Project sponsor.
“We’re excited to partner with Nucor and our family of port companies to develop this project,” said Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville Port Director Jeff Miles. “This port provides critical multimodal connections for steel shipments and steel processors in the Midwest. We have 13 steel-related companies on-site that make our ‘Steel Campus’ a key transportation hub for U.S. steel producers, automakers and manufacturing facilities.”
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