Riley Pushes Mobile Port During South America Trip

Alabama Governor Bob Riley has met with business officials in Santiago, Chile, hoping to attract business for Mobile's new container terminal.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG-TV
Published: June 05, 2008

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Gov. Bob Riley has met with
business officials in Santiago, Chile, hoping to attract business
for Mobile's new container terminal.

Riley met Wednesday with Fernando Valenzuela, a senior vice
president with CSAV, a worldwide shipping company based in Chile.

The company owns 109 container vessels and more than 270,000
containers. Valenzuela told Riley he expects container shipments at
U.S. Gulf Coast ports to increase by more than a million containers
a year by 2009.

Riley asked company officials to consider using the new
container facility at Mobile when delivering containers to the
United States. Riley said the Port of Mobile is an ideal place for
shipments to enter the country. He said shipments can be sent up
Interstate 65 to the midwest and Canada.

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