GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- The Port Authority has been awarded $11.25 million in funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Infrastructure Development Program. The port has received an…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- The Port of Gulfport is receiving more than $11 million in federal DOT grant money to upgrade infrastructure on site. The money comes from the 2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program and will support a $24 and a…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- The Port of Gulfport’s newest crane is now officially in place after arriving to the port Thursday. Port officials say the new ship to shore…
BREAKING: East and Gulf Coast ports have shut down as thousands of International Longshoreman's Association members have gone on strike. These strikes come after the ILA announced that at midnight, 11:00 PM…
Members of the International Longshoreman’s Association prepare to go on strike Monday night at 11 p.m. local time. WXXV News 25’s Lucas Warran has been on top…
The Gulfport City Council took up an appeal today against the Port of Gulfport’s cold storage facility off 34th Avenue. WXXV’s Brooke Parker has an update for us this…
Local and national officials were invited to the Port of Gulfport to see how it operates. The Port of Gulfport is the third…
Jackson, Miss. (February 1, 2024) – CORE X GULFPORT, a subsidiary of CORE X Partners, is establishing cold storage operations at the Port of Gulfport. The project is a more than $73 million investment and will create 73 jobs. CORE X…
The Port of Gulfport unveiled the new Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise Building today, alongside the governor and senators. This building was a development partnership with the University of Southern…
The Army Corps of Engineers in Mobile facilitated a visit to Gulfport today to sign an agreement that would officially begin the next phase of…
A very important mission docked at the Port of Gulfport. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also known as NOAA, picked up and serviced five weather buoys from…
An extended agreement at the state Port of Gulfport that will bring an economic boost to the area, perhaps even more jobs. The Mississippi State Port Authority has…
A Pentagon report published by the Wall Street Journal says the military sees Chinese-made cranes operating in U.S. ports as a potential ‘Trojan Horse’ that China could use to…
A training exercise for the Seabees was hosted today. The Port of Gulfport is hosting the Seabees Field Training exercise. It’s a full-on…
The Seabees have been out at the Port of Gulfport since last week conducting operations on the southeast side of the port. The…
120 years after the Trojan became the first vessel to dock at the Port of Gulfport, the story behind the ship’s captain…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialist announced today they discovered a butterfly larvae pest, known as the Saunders 1850, while inspecting a…
The Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport has a new tenant and more jobs coming to the east pier. Ocean Aero will occupy 67,000 feet of warehouse space…
With just over a week on the job under his belt, Port of Gulfport’s new Executive Director Jon Nass is settling in and getting to work…
After an eight-month long process, the Mississippi State Port of Authority Board of Commissioners named Jon Nass as the new CEO and executive director of the Port of Gulfport. Nass comes from the Maine Port Authority where…
The Mississippi State Port Authority's Board of Commissioners on Wednesday named Jon Nass the new CEO and Executive Director of the Port of Gulfport, following a national search led by Tim McNamara, Head of Odgers Berndtson’s Transportation and Infrastructure Practice…
Jonathan Daniels, the executive director and CEO of the Port of Gulfport, has resigned his position in Mississippi to take a similar position in Florida. The resignation, accepted by the Mississippi State Port Authority Board of Commissioners, is effective June…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists working at the Port of Gulfport made two first-in-Mississippi pest discoveries in fruit shipments during the month of March. The first discovery was identified as a Cholus sp…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) – The Royal Caribbean’s “The Majesty of the Seas” vessel will dock at the Port of Gulfport Tuesday and remain in port until Friday, March 27. Crew members who have completed their employment contract with Royal Caribbean…