The former Tanners Creek Power Plant site in Lawrenceburg could still be the home of a fourth port.
(Mount Vernon, Ind.) – Record-breaking shipments at the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon could bode well for adding a shipping port on the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg.
Ports of Indiana announced last week that the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon has made more barge shipments in the first six months of 2018 than any port in the history of Indiana’s ports.
Approximately 4.7 million tons of cargo moved through the port the first half of 2018, an increase of 36 percent from the same time last year.
Key drivers of the record shipments included maritime shipping increases in coal, grain, dried distillers grain, calcined coke, salt and soy products.
Ports of Indiana is celebrating four consecutive years of unprecedented growth, handling over 10 million tons of cargo four years in a row.
The organization has long been exploring the opportunity to expand its three-port system by adding a new port in southeast Indiana. The former Tanners Creek Power Plant site in Lawrenceburg has long been rumored as a potential site for a fourth port.
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