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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves enacted legislation to implement rolling 3-cent annual hikes in gas and diesel excise taxes starting July 1 in a package of tax laws, including one eliminating state income tax.

Offering a cost-effective shipping gateway to the Gulf of America (formerly the Gulf of Mexico), the public port sits near the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway.

The U.S. EPA awarded the Port of New Orleans $1 million to pay for a sustainability plan to assist with building the multimodal Louisiana International Terminal container facility.

A top Swiss manufacturer of construction equipment has inked a $176 million deal with Mississippi state officials to build a massive distribution and logistics center to provide spare parts in North and South America.

A subsidiary of Core X Partners is investing $73 million to establish a Mississippi cold storage site at the Port of Gulfport in a venture to revitalize the Gulf Coast cold supply chain.

The Mississippi River is at risk of bottlenecks for a third straight year as warm, dry spring weather and low winter snowpack limit the amount of water feeding into it.

Gov. Tate Reeves has welcomed a $64 million venture between a Mississippi-based trucking company and a cold-storage logistics firm to build a warehouse and transportation hub.

Drought has again closed a portion of the Mississippi River — and this time shrunk a part of the major U.S. waterway in Memphis, Tenn., to its lowest level ever.

A drought is spreading across the Midwest, drying up the Mississippi River and its tributaries that serve as a critical freight artery for the country.

The Mississippi Transportation Commission awarded 14 contracts for infrastructure projects at its recent meeting.