New Ray-Mont Facility To Raise Port Exports By Nearly 10%

Canadian company Ray-Mont Logistics and the Alabama Port Authority have announced that Ray-Mont will open a new shipping facility in Mobile, its third in the U.S. and its first on the Gulf Coast, AL.com reports. The authority said the facility could add “approximately 60,000 TEUs [20-ft equivalent units] of annual export volume” once its first phase is fully operational. At the heart of the first phase is an operation that will bag plastic pellets so they can be loaded into shipping containers. For context, the Port of Mobile handled 112,000 TEUs in 2009, at which point it was the 28th-busiest container port in the U.S. The new facility alone promises to generate half that volume. Ray-Mont and the port authority describe the planned operation as an “export-focused transloading facility.” Expected to begin operating late this year, it is expected to “increase exports of plastic resin packaging, forest products and other goods.” The project has been in the works since 2021. The new facility will be built on property owned by the Alabama Export Railroad.