Terminal throughput, dwell and chassis supply, gate hours and appointment systems, labour, and the capital programmes that decide how many boxes a berth can turn in a week.
The Alabama Port Authority's Montgomery ICTF is on track for early 2027, adding 60,000 TEUs of rail-served capacity 170 highway miles inland from the Port of Mobile.
August's 955,907 TEUs capped a record June-August stretch, and the port's own numbers point to ships diverting away from Panama Canal drought risk and Chinese weather delays, not just holiday frontloading.
The Edgemoor project survived a federal court fight over its dredging permits only to run into a cost overrun and a fresh round of litigation from the Pennsylvania and New Jersey ports it would compete against.
The agreement, which can stretch to 20 years with its two options, ties Jacksonville-San Juan Jones Act cargo handling to a single terminal operator and a new tracking system due in 2027 — while Trailer Bridge separately commits $9 million to dry-dock work this year.
The channel study targets the one Charleston terminal that isn't yet as deep as the rest of the harbor — and the one whose container count just collapsed.
The Harbor Commission's approval buys the port three more decades of a terminal operator it's had since 1991 — and buys Yusen a hard deadline to electrify its fleet.
