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Palmetto Railways
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- Type
- Freight railroad — State-owned short line railroad, a division of the South Carolina Department of Commerce, switching the Port of Charleston terminals and building the Camp Hall industrial rail line
- Market · Region
- United States · South Carolina
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Electrification
State-owned short line building the Camp Hall line and serving the Port of Charleston and Navy Base yard.
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Owned by the South Carolina Department of Commerce, which funds its new lines. It operates the Charleston, North Charleston, Charity Christ and Salkehatchie subdivisions, switches all Port of Charleston terminals and interchanges with CSX and Norfolk Southern; the state rail plan counts about 43,000 carloads moved in 2023. It is building a roughly 25-mile line between Ridgeville and Cross for the Camp Hall Commerce Park and the Volvo Cars plant, with an FRA INFRA grant and a CSX contribution, and reopened the dormant Salkehatchie line in spring 2026. It will provide rail service to and from the Navy Base Intermodal Facility.
- Type
- Freight railroad — State-owned short line railroad, a division of the South Carolina Department of Commerce, switching the Port of Charleston terminals and building the Camp Hall industrial rail line
- Where
- South Carolina · North Charleston
- Programmes
- FRA Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Electrification
Structure
- funded by FRA — INFRA award for the Camp Hall industrial rail line (federal award 69A36524420000INFSC) (active)
- funded by CSX — CSX investment in the Camp Hall line, per the 2024 state rail plan (active)
- operates for SC Ports — Switches all Port of Charleston terminals and will provide rail service to and from the Navy Base Intermodal Facility (active)
- Contract detail and values (2)$25–100m · $5–25mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (2)
- ● SCDOT / FRA · South Carolina Statewide Rail Plan 2024 (Cambridge Systematics for SCDOT, November 2024) bound with the FRA acceptance letter of 8 May 2025: funding sources, projects under construction (Table 4-2), unfunded needs (Tables 4-3, 4-7, 5-1), Palmetto Railways profile, CRISI, INFRA and BUILD awards. Read 8 October 2026. (published 2025-05-08 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● USAspending.gov (FRA award record) · FRA INFRA award 69A36524420000INFSC to SC Public Railway: $25,000,000 federal, $183,570,000 non-federal, $208,570,000 total funding; 23-mile industrial rail line from Camp Hall Commerce Park to CSX; signed 25 January 2024; period 1 November 2023 to 31 August 2026. (published 2024-01-25 · checked 2026-10-08)
Tenders
| Tender | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Hall industrial rail line | In execution | $100–500m | Completion May 2023 |
| Salkehatchie Subdivision reactivation | In execution | $5–25m | |
| Palmetto Railways unfunded capital needs | Planned | $25–100m |
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- Published contacts (2)
- Award history (3)
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