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Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport
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- Type
- Development authority — State port authority at Gulfport; on-dock rail with CN and CPKC, a direct rail connection to Camp Shelby and a designated Strategic Seaport
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- United States · Mississippi
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- Technology areas
- Track & civil
State port with on-dock CN and CPKC rail and a federal grant for terminal rail works.
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Runs the state port at Gulfport and is upgrading Terminal 5 rail and an intra-port rail link with a federal port grant, state multimodal money and its stevedore's contribution.
- Type
- Development authority — State port authority at Gulfport; on-dock rail with CN and CPKC, a direct rail connection to Camp Shelby and a designated Strategic Seaport
- Where
- Mississippi · Gulfport
- Technology areas
- Track & civil
Structure
- funded by USDOT — Port Infrastructure Development Program grant via MARAD toward the Gulfport terminal project (announced May 2026) (active)
- funded by MDOT — MDOT Strategic Multi-Modal Investments Fund grant toward the Gulfport project (active)
- operated by CN — CN provides on-dock Class I rail service at the Port of Gulfport (active)
- operated by CPKC — CPKC provides on-dock Class I rail service at the Port of Gulfport (active)
- Contract detail and values (4)$5–25mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (3)
- ○ FreightWaves - CN to offer intermodal service via Gulfport (8 November 2023) · Trade press (Secondary): CN, the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport and Ports America signed a memorandum of understanding for a new CN intermodal service at the port; the port is served by CPKC according to MDOT (published 2023-11-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Port of Gulfport - release: Awarded $11.25 Million USDOT Grant (1 May 2026) · Port release: MARAD awarded $11.25 million from the 2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program towards a $24.5 million project funded also by $9.5 million from the stevedore Ports America, $2.6 million from MDOT's Strategic Multi-Modal Investment Fund and just over $1.2 million of port funds; scope includes rail improvements on Terminal 5, an intra-port rail connection between the East Pier and West Pier, paving and reefer towers at Terminal 4, a crane transformer and a reach stacker; on-dock Class I service via CN and CPKC (published 2026-05-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Progressive Railroading - Mississippi DOT to award $30M in multimodal program grants (12 April 2024) · Trade press (Secondary; MDOT's own release is a JavaScript page that returns no text to automated clients): first round of the Strategic Multimodal Investments Fund, established 2023, $30 million to railroads, ports and airports; five rail recipients (Rosedale-Bolivar County Port Great River Railroad, Itawamba Mississippian Railway, Grenada Railroad, Ripley & New Albany Railroad, Mississippi Southern Railroad) and six port recipients including Gulfport; superseded as the source for the 2024 round by MDOT's own release (mdot_nr_1866) and kept for the recipient list (published 2024-04-12 · checked 2026-10-08)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gulfport terminal rail and intermodal upgrade | Planned | $5–25m |
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6 sources · 4 primary
- ● Port of Gulfport - release: Awarded $11.25 Million USDOT Grant (1 May 2026) · Port release: MARAD awarded $11.25 million from the 2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program towards a $24.5 million project funded also by $9.5 million from the stevedore Ports America, $2.6 million from MDOT's Strategic Multi-Modal Investment Fund and just over $1.2 million of port funds; scope includes rail improvements on Terminal 5, an intra-port rail connection between the East Pier and West Pier, paving and reefer towers at Terminal 4, a crane transformer and a reach stacker; on-dock Class I service via CN and CPKC (published 2026-05-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Port of Gulfport - Procurement Opportunities · Procurement page: formal RFQ or RFP above $50,000, informal below; bids may be advertised in the Sun Herald and on the port site; current bid links are buttons that load separately (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Port of Gulfport - Newsroom · Port newsroom index read on 8 October 2026: latest items are the channel-deepening recommendation (9 June 2026), the PIDP award (1 May 2026) and a new gantry crane (12 September 2025) (published 2026-06-09 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Port of Gulfport - Restoration Projects and General Projects & Upgrades · Port pages: the post-Katrina Restoration Project is described as complete ($570 million programme, $225 million of construction completed in 2018); a 2020 MARAD grant of $15.7 million funded the Port Access Project north of the western entrance; the Expansion Project (282-acre dredge and fill, breakwater) is listed as a future project (published 2026 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ FreightWaves - CN to offer intermodal service via Gulfport (8 November 2023) · Trade press (Secondary): CN, the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport and Ports America signed a memorandum of understanding for a new CN intermodal service at the port; the port is served by CPKC according to MDOT (published 2023-11-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Progressive Railroading - Mississippi DOT to award $30M in multimodal program grants (12 April 2024) · Trade press (Secondary; MDOT's own release is a JavaScript page that returns no text to automated clients): first round of the Strategic Multimodal Investments Fund, established 2023, $30 million to railroads, ports and airports; five rail recipients (Rosedale-Bolivar County Port Great River Railroad, Itawamba Mississippian Railway, Grenada Railroad, Ripley & New Albany Railroad, Mississippi Southern Railroad) and six port recipients including Gulfport; superseded as the source for the 2024 round by MDOT's own release (mdot_nr_1866) and kept for the recipient list (published 2024-04-12 · checked 2026-10-08)
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