{"id":4844,"date":"2016-10-25T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/10\/25\/indiana-pushes-forward-with-new-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:42:30","slug":"indiana-pushes-forward-with-new-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/10\/25\/indiana-pushes-forward-with-new-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana pushes forward with new port"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Ports of Indiana identified the retired power plant site as a favourable location for the state\u2019s fourth port earlier this month, and will now work closely with the Commercial Development Company (CDC) to determine the logistical viability of developing a port there.<\/p>\n<p>CDC has further committed that Ports of Indiana will have the exclusive opportunity to investigate the site for port development.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the developer is planning to carry out environmental remediation and tear down all the buildings, which could take an estimated three to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Cooper, Ports of Indiana\u2019s chief executive, said: \u201cIt\u2019s too early to say what could be constructed here, but we\u2019re excited to have the exclusive right to further investigate this site with CDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already had enquiries from companies that may have interest in locating or shipping products at this site, which is definitely encouraging for future development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Eric Holcomb added that pursuing the development of a new port in southeast Indiana \u201cwill help drive growth for the state\u2019s 21<sup>st<\/sup> century agriculture and advanced manufacturing sectors\u201d and \u201cattract continued business investment to the state\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ports of Indiana is moving ahead with its plan to build a fourth port at a 725-acre former coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River, which previously belonged to Indiana Michigan Power and was decommissioned last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}