Port of Mobile Gets New Steel Terminal

zoom The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) and Alabama Steel Terminals, LLC (AST) dedicated a new USD 36 million steel coil handling facility at the US Port of Mobile. Located on the Alabama State Port Authoritys main docks complex, the new rail, truck and barge served facility was constructed behind ASPAs Pier D2 berth on a 40-foot deep channel. Alabama Steel Terminals will operate and manage the terminal. We are pleased to have delivered the most technologically advanced steel handling facility in the nation to better complement the ports existing portfolio of steel terminal facilities, said James K. Lyons, chief executive of the Port Authority. The Port of Mobile is currently the second largest steel handling port in the nation with just over 5 million tons handled in Fiscal Year 2014 through the Port Authoritys terminals. Alabama Steel Terminals provides 178,200 square feet of covered bay area equipped with three 50-ton capacity overhead bridge cranes and 168,000 square feet of open storage yard handling an estimated 700,000 tons of steel annually. At full build out, Alabama Steel Terminals would add 194,400 square feet bay area equipped with three additional 50-ton capacity overhead bridge cranes.