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Navy Base Intermodal Facility rail yard
Navy Base Intermodal Facility - 118-acre near-dock rail yard with 35,000 feet of processing track, six electric gantry cranes, drayage road and rail overpass, dual-served by CSX and Norfolk Southern
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- Buyer
- South Carolina State Ports Authority (SC Ports)
- Where
- South Carolina · North Charleston
- Segments
- Track, Civil works, Stations & depots
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations, Electrification
- Status
- In execution — SC Ports calls construction nearly complete; no opening date is published.
- Value band
- $500m–1bn
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- State appropriation 1 June 2021 · State appropriation 2 June 2022 · Intergovernmental agreement July 2021 · Groundbreaking October 2022 · Site notice to proceed February 2023 · Opening planned in 2025 plan July 2025 · Leatherman pause August 2026 · Railroad negotiations expected complete June 2026
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SC Ports calls construction nearly complete; no opening date is published. The yard was due to open in July 2025, and agreements with CSX and Norfolk Southern were still under negotiation in February 2026. Southern rail access remains in design, and the Leatherman Terminal it is meant to serve has paused operations from 1 August 2026.
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6 sources · 5 primary
- ● SC Ports Authority · Navy Base Intermodal Facility page: status 'construction is nearly complete', 118-acre site, 1 million rail lifts a year, six rail-mounted gantry cranes, Southern Rail Connection of about 15 track miles with design ongoing. Undated page; scspa.com sub-pages return HTTP 403 to curl and were read through a fetch tool. Read 8 October 2026. (checked 2026-10-08)
- ● SC Ports Authority · Report on Financial Statements and Required Supplementary Information for the fiscal years ended 30 June 2025 and 2024: Note 7 (NBIF appropriations of 21 June 2021 and 22 June 2022, intergovernmental agreement of 1 July 2021, state funding expended), Inland Port Greer expansion, rail moves. Read 8 October 2026. (checked 2026-10-08)
- ● SC Ports Authority · Presentation to the House Ways and Means Economic Development subcommittee, January 2025: NBIF timeline (state commitment of $550m, notice to proceed 20 February 2023, opening then planned for 2025), Inland Port Greer and Dillon FY2024 rail lifts, Leatherman Terminal berth 2 contract approval of 19 November 2024. Read 8 October 2026. (published 2025-01 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● 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)
- ● SC Ports Authority · Release 'SC Ports consolidating container operations in the short-term': Leatherman Terminal operations to pause from 1 August 2026. Relevant context because NBIF was planned to serve the Leatherman Terminal by a dedicated drayage road. (published 2026-06-25 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ○ SC Daily Gazette · 'SC Ports gives private update on public rail yard project', 24 February 2026: Joint Bond Review Committee briefing; rail yard originally due July 2025, no new opening date; $485 million committed, $380.3 million paid; railroad negotiations expected complete by June 2026, then final-phase bids. Original page returns 403; read through web.archive.org. (published 2026-02-24 · checked 2026-10-08)
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