construction.jpgConstruction at the Mobile Container Terminal May 21, 2008. (Press-Register/John David Mercer)

MOBILE, Alabama — Alabama State Port Authority Chief Executive Jimmy Lyons said a $12 million TIGER grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation has accelerated plans for the start of the Garrows Bend Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, a project that, when finished, will directly connect containerized imports and exports from the Port of Mobile to major railroad lines across the United States.

Lyons said the grant will allow the port authority to

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