The Alabama Port Authority has completed the fourth phase of its container terminal expansion.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members returned to work after a three-day strike. The ILA agreed to suspend the strike until Jan. 15, 2025, while contract negotiations take place.
Ships continue to arrive at shut-down terminals as the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) strike enters day two. Already, panic has set in, and toilet paper and other paper products have flown off shelves from Texas to New York.
The Port of Mobile is one of 36 ports nationwide where workers are striking to ask for better wages and no automation.
The widening and deepening project has been underway since May 2021 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.
U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) announced more beneficial use opportunities related to dredging material in Mobile Bay.
The Mobile Baykeeper is continuing to request the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers make changes in its effort to widen and deepen the Port of Mobile, despite the Port Authority asking the non-profit to come to the table.
The Mobile Baykeeper announced Tuesday that it intends to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Mobile Port expansion. The Baykeeper and the Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter claiming the Corps failed to protect Gulf sturgeon during a dredging project in Mobile Bay.
Herbert McCants, retired Chief of Alabama Port Authority, died in Mobile July 3.
Negotiations between a maritime workers union and the United States Maritime Alliance have failed, according to reports, meaning a strike could be looming at Alabama's port.