The Alabama Port Authority has secured $400 million for a channel widening project to improve throughput at the port of Mobile. That follows a 10.7% year over year increase in inbound volumes to the port in 2018 as shipments from Maersk and MSC, which represented 50.0% of shipments, CMA-CGM and ZIM Shipping steadily improved. CMA-CGM will likely push more volumes through the port in 2019 as a result of new service offerings. The deeper channel will be able to receive larger vessels from Asia via the Panama Canal. Leading importers to Alabama that don’t use Mobile for all their shippin...