b'12American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comTexas and Louisiana Ports 2023 Gulf ports roundupPort of Avondale From Tampa Bay, Florida to Brownsville, Texas Port of New OrleansPort of Gretna the U.S. Gulf Ports have experienced a growth in St. Bernard Port businesssome of it due to the shift from West Port of Beaumont Port of Lake Charles Port of Alliance Coast Ports to the Gulfand some of the growth Port of Port Arthur Port of BellevuePort of Morgan City Plaquemines Parish Port is a result of prudent investments in port infra-Port HoustonBarbours Cut Port of Sabine Pass Port of Ostrica structure to capture the opportunities.Port of Galveston Port of Fourchon By AJOT StaffPort of Victoria Port of Freeport LOOP TerminalPoint Comfort p oRtt aMpaB ay , flPort Lavaca MS - AL - FL Ports In late February, Port Tampa Bay clinched an importantinfrastructuredeal. Tradepoint Atlantic, Port of Corpus Christi Port Panama City which owns a 3,300-acre global multimodal logis-Port of Pensacola ticshubandindustrialcenteronSparrowsPoint Port of Mobile in the Port of Baltimore, announced that the Port Gulf of Mexico Port of Pascagoula Port of St. Joe Tampa Bays Board of Commissioners approved a Biloxi Port Apalachicola Harbor leaseagreementwithTradepoint Tampafor35 Port of Gulfport acres of land to build a new trans-load warehouse Port of Isabel Port Bienville Industrial Park Port Tampa Bay distribution facility. Under the terms of a 40-year Port of Brownsville Gulf of Mexico leaseagreement,TradepointTampawilldesign, construct,andoperateanapproximately500,000 Port Manatee square foot facility for the trans-loading of cargo betweenoceancontainers,trucks,andrailcars. The new trans-load facility will be located on Hookers Point adjacent to the ports container terminal, which is also being expanded with additional paved storage, cranes, and a new gate complex, as well as the ports on-dock cold storage facility. And this isnt the only new business in the port. The port is also expanding by leaps and bounds and got a big boost from the US DOT. Port Tampa Bay will receive $12.6 million in grant fund-ing from the US DOT to expand and diversify a berth at Port Redwing. The ports funding allocation is part of $1.5 billion in grant funding made available through the Rebuilding Ameri-can Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) dis-cretionary grant program. Tampa will use RAISE funding to create Berth 301 at the satellite facility, Port Redwing. The new berth will provide room for a third large ship to be worked at the port.Additional private investment and investment from Port Tampa Bay will be added to the grants funds. BesidesA Dole container vessel docked at the Port of Tampa Bay. (GULFcontinued on page 14)'