Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 2:34:07 GMT -6
The Jasper Ocean Terminal is projected to be ready to operate by around 2025, but S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley says she wants the port up and running sooner.
Haley called for the estimated $4.5 billion project to be fast-tracked at a meeting Monday in Ridgeland, where she was by joined a cadre of consultants, elected officials, project directors and state port authority leaders.
“We need this done yesterday,” she said.
Shaving a few years off the project timeline will allow the Jasper Ocean Terminal to be ready when the nearby ports in Charleston and Savannah can no longer handle their cargo demands, Haley said.
Michael Rieger, project manager with the consulting firm Moffatt and Nichol, said a 2013 study of both ports determined that “by about 2025, the two ports will have reached their maximum capacity.”
Read more here: www.islandpacket.com/news/business/article75179757.html
Haley called for the estimated $4.5 billion project to be fast-tracked at a meeting Monday in Ridgeland, where she was by joined a cadre of consultants, elected officials, project directors and state port authority leaders.
“We need this done yesterday,” she said.
Shaving a few years off the project timeline will allow the Jasper Ocean Terminal to be ready when the nearby ports in Charleston and Savannah can no longer handle their cargo demands, Haley said.
Michael Rieger, project manager with the consulting firm Moffatt and Nichol, said a 2013 study of both ports determined that “by about 2025, the two ports will have reached their maximum capacity.”
Read more here: www.islandpacket.com/news/business/article75179757.html