Port of North Dakota

Updates

May 24, 2017: in default. 

Original Post

 

[Note: this was originally posted some time ago; when I added an update, somehow it got re-posted as a completely new post for this date; that has not happened to me before; not sure how it happened this time. Regardless: the post is an old post, but the flyer noted in the first paragraph below is new.]

For those of you who a) have nothing else to do; and, b) love to explore Google maps, here's a suggestion: look for the satellite view of the Port of North Dakota. [On September 11, Kent sent a link to a promotional flyer which shows how Port of North Dakota will be laid out.]

Hint: google map "55 Street East, Minot, North Dakota," and then move cursor to area west of 55 Street East, and just south of County Road 12. Then zoom in with satellite view to see the Burlington Northern yard to the east and the Port of North Dakota to the west.

Then, go to these two linked articles:

The Port of North Dakota became operational in 2008, shipping its first containers in 2010.

Also two years ago, North Dakota Port Services moved into a new building at the site, which company owner Greg Johnson said the port already has outgrown. Future development plans for the port include a new, larger headquarters building on property north of the existing site.

And, 

The port's 72 employees are far more than the 40 employees that officials figured the port would have four years into its operation. A year from now, Johnson estimated, the port could have in the neighborhood of 200 to 250 employees. As the proposed expansion gets built out, that number will grow. Future employment is unknown but could be as high as 2,000 workers.

Plans call for increasing the port's capacity to handle more business and larger trains. The port would add about 3,000 acres to the north of its existing, 139-acre site on Minot's east side, extending as far north as 46th Avenue Northeast. The existing site is south of Ward County Road 12 and west of Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Gavin Yard and 55th Street East.

From forty employees projected to more than 2,000. And regardless of what POTUS thinks about this, I think it's pretty spectacular.