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City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority (Tulsa Ports)
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- Type
- Development authority — Port authority led by a board appointed by the Mayor of Tulsa and the Rogers County Commissioners; operates the Tulsa Port of Catoosa (2,000 acres, barge port and rail transload) and the Port of Inola (2,200 acres, rail and barge access) on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
- Market · Region
- United States · Oklahoma
- Open tenders
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- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations
Owns the rail inside the Tulsa ports and is building a unit train facility at Catoosa.
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Builds and owns port rail: the unit train facility at Catoosa, the connecting line to the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, and the 4.4-mile Verdigris Southern line at Inola. The Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad is operated by OmniTRAX and the Verdigris Southern by Watco.
- Type
- Development authority — Port authority led by a board appointed by the Mayor of Tulsa and the Rogers County Commissioners; operates the Tulsa Port of Catoosa (2,000 acres, barge port and rail transload) and the Port of Inola (2,200 acres, rail and barge access) on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
- Where
- Oklahoma · Catoosa
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations
Structure
- operated by Watco — Operates the Verdigris Southern Railroad serving the Port of Inola (active)
- operated by OmniTRAX — Operates the Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad inside the Tulsa Port of Catoosa (active)
- funded by USDOT — INFRA grant toward the Verdigris Southern rail spur to the Port of Inola (MARAD award signed August 2022) (active)
Who holds what here
- leases to Watco — Port-owned connecting line to the Port of Catoosa leased to the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, a Watco subsidiary (active)
- Contract detail and values (4)$5–25mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (6)
- ● Oklahoma State Rail Plan appendix, 2026 draft · Draft appendices: Class III railroad datasheets (including the Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad unit train facility phases), Heartland Flyer station table and Appendix F project list (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Oklahoma State Rail Plan, June 2026 (Version 1.0, draft) · ODOT's draft 2026 State Rail Plan as posted for comment: Freight Mobility Branch, 142 miles of state-owned track, Heartland Flyer funding tables 2-6 and 2-7, CRISI and RCE awards, Tulsa Ports rail projects, passenger rail chapter and the 107-project Rail Service and Investment Program. A draft, not an adopted plan (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Railway Age: Report: Port of Inola's Rail Project Advances (5 December 2022) · Trade-press report of the port authority's construction contract award for the 4.4-mile Inola rail spur, citing a 4 December 2022 Tulsa World report; web.archive.org copy because railwayage.com blocks automated clients (published 2022-12-05 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports: Demand for Rail Strong, Expected to Rise (14 June 2022) · Port repost of a June 2022 magazine story: the Inola rail line was made possible by a federal INFRA grant with public and private matches, was going out to bid and was expected to cost north of $12 million, with Sofidel America as first client (published 2022-06-14 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports: Verdigris Southern Railroad dedication (11 July 2024) · Reprint of a 5 June 2024 State Department of Commerce story: new 4.4-mile railroad connecting the Tulsa Port of Inola to the Union Pacific, a four-year project with USDOT, MARAD, ODOT, Commerce, Rogers County, Watco and Union Pacific among partners (published 2024-07-11 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending award 693JF72140028 (MARAD INFRA, Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority) · MARAD Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects award of $6,189,327 to the City of Tulsa - Rogers County Port Authority, signed 19 August 2022, period to 30 April 2025; purpose given only as advancing freight and highway projects. Linked to the Inola spur by the port's June 2022 statement that an INFRA grant made it possible and Railway Age's report of a USDOT INFRA grant (published 2022-08-19 · checked 2026-10-08)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Catoosa unit train facility | In execution | $25–100m | |
| Port of Inola Verdigris Southern rail spur | In execution | $5–25m | |
| Catoosa lead track S-curve relocation | Planned | $25–100m |
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- Entry path
- Portals (1)
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7 sources · 6 primary
- ● Oklahoma State Rail Plan, June 2026 (Version 1.0, draft) · ODOT's draft 2026 State Rail Plan as posted for comment: Freight Mobility Branch, 142 miles of state-owned track, Heartland Flyer funding tables 2-6 and 2-7, CRISI and RCE awards, Tulsa Ports rail projects, passenger rail chapter and the 107-project Rail Service and Investment Program. A draft, not an adopted plan (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Oklahoma State Rail Plan appendix, 2026 draft · Draft appendices: Class III railroad datasheets (including the Port of Catoosa Industrial Railroad unit train facility phases), Heartland Flyer station table and Appendix F project list (published 2026-06 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports News & Events · Index of Tulsa Ports releases; latest items are January 2025 and July 2024 (Verdigris Southern Railroad dedication) (published 2026-10-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports: Verdigris Southern Railroad dedication (11 July 2024) · Reprint of a 5 June 2024 State Department of Commerce story: new 4.4-mile railroad connecting the Tulsa Port of Inola to the Union Pacific, a four-year project with USDOT, MARAD, ODOT, Commerce, Rogers County, Watco and Union Pacific among partners (published 2024-07-11 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ Waterways Journal: Infrastructure Investment Pays Dividends For Tulsa Ports (28 March 2025) · Trade-press article giving a $20 million figure for the Port of Inola rail spur that opened in 2024 and describing Catoosa's BNSF and SKOL connections. Secondary: the port publishes no cost (published 2025-03-28 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending award 693JF72140028 (MARAD INFRA, Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority) · MARAD Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects award of $6,189,327 to the City of Tulsa - Rogers County Port Authority, signed 19 August 2022, period to 30 April 2025; purpose given only as advancing freight and highway projects. Linked to the Inola spur by the port's June 2022 statement that an INFRA grant made it possible and Railway Age's report of a USDOT INFRA grant (published 2022-08-19 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Tulsa Ports: Demand for Rail Strong, Expected to Rise (14 June 2022) · Port repost of a June 2022 magazine story: the Inola rail line was made possible by a federal INFRA grant with public and private matches, was going out to bid and was expected to cost north of $12 million, with Sofidel America as first client (published 2022-06-14 · checked 2026-10-08)
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