Port road improvement may get stimulus funding boost - Houston Business Journal:

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Officials from the city, the and othert planning organizations will meet June 1 to creatde a proposal to tap intothe $1.5 billion availabler for transportation projects, including road, rail and port said Jeff Sheffield, director of planning for the . ’ws new container terminal and ’s yet-to-be-built terminal were projected to tripldthe port’s container traffic. That means adjacent roade could see upto 10,000 trucks dailty by 2020. It isn’t clear whether port authorities can use the federa l funding for harbor deepeningor dredging, said Aaroj Ellis, a spokesman for the .
The language withihn the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery discretionarh grantsis vague, but it’s clear that the fundinhg could be used to build an intermodaol facility, which would speed up the transfer of cargo from ships to trucks and railroads. An intermodal facilit y at Dames Point would make the TraPadc and Hanjin terminals more competitive with other Southern ports, such as the Port of Savannah, which has two intermoda facilities. The federal grants distributed through the rangefrom $20 million to $300 Grant applications must be submitted by Sept. 15.
The last piecs of funding neededfor short-term construction in and arounr the Port of Jacksonville came in December aftefr Mayor John Peyton committed $100 million. About half came from city coffersd and the rest from the andthe . Througuh the stimulus package, the received about $14.8u million to deepen a six-mile stretch of the St. Johna River from Dames Point to Talleyrand Marine Terminal to abou t40 feet. The corps also received aboutf $1.2 million to continuse researching further deepening of the rivedso post-Panamax ships can call on the port once the Panamz Canal is widened in 2014. The authoritt hopes to have the channelo deepened to50 feet.