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Officials say a proposed inland port near where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet will have ample capacity to serve Midwest customers seeking export access via barge, rail and truck.

Alexander County hopes to land large share of U.S. intermodal shipping traffic

Alexander County hopes to land large share of U.S. intermodal shipping traffic

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is working toward giving far-flung space explorers more autonomy when navigating. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, the mission reports progress in their work to improve the ability of space-based atomic clocks to measure time consistently over long periods. Known as stability, this feature also impacts the operation of GPS satellites that help people navigate on Earth, so this work also has the potential to increase the autonomy of next-generatio...

* From the Alexander Cairo Port District… The construction of a new inland port at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers took another step forward today as the Alexander Cairo Port District completed a project labor agreement (PLA) with the Illinois AFL-CIO. The project labor agreement ensures that more than 500 jobs created by the construction of the Cairo port will be filled by local Illinois union workers. The Alexander-Cairo port represents one of the largest investments in S...

December 18, 2020 By Shelley Byrne Port projects near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in southern Illinois and western Kentucky are moving forward, with the Illinois project expected to break ground as soon as late spring. Alexander-Cairo Port The Illinois Department of Transportation signed the first round of intergovernmental grant agreements the first week of December, formally allocating the first $4 million o...