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The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Alabama Port Authority and the Mobile Airport Authority a $100 million grant to build multimodal transportation assets in the Mobile region. The Port of Mobile will receive $38 million, with the remaining $62 million going to the Mobile Downtown Airport. The competitive grant was part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. "This is one of the most impactful federal grants during my time in Congress," Sen. Richard Shelby (R.-Ala.) said in a statement. "Mobile is uniquely positioned to become a major transportation hub, with infrastructure already in place for maritime, rail, aviation and highways. ... Our Gulf Coast and the entire state of Alabama stand to benefit immensely from this funding in ways we can only imagine. Mobile has a lot to offer, and I am thrilled that we are utilizing its existing infrastructure to create a new transportation hub and economic power source for the entire state." With its share of the $100 million grant, the Port of Mobile will build a bridge at the port's container intermod-al complex that will connect the marine terminal with the intermodal container transfer facility (ICTF) terminals and the logistics park nearby. |