1 week Ago By TODD VON KAMPEN [email protected]
The inland port authority board at the Hershey rail park will return there Thursday for its monthly board meeting. The Nebraska International Port of the Plains board will meet at 2 p.m.
that day in its headquarters building, formerly Greenbrier Rail Services, at 18610 W. Highway 30 at Hershey’s east edge. It usually meets the fourth Monday of each month.
The nine-member board needed its regular meeting Dec. 16 and a special meeting Jan. 6 to choose its 2025 officers.
It intends Thursday to complete its reorganization by assigning members to the port authority’s finance, facilities and executive committees. Jim Hawks, who succeeded Vince Dugan as chairman Jan. 6, is scheduled to report on terms and conditions of board consultant TranSystems’ proposal for designing the rail park’s transloading yard for loading and unloading cargo.
The yard would run parallel to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that mostly run south of Port of the Plains but bisect the land it owns at one point. Some board members asked at recent meetings whether some of the tracks in TranSystems’ concept design would be located on rail-park land or within U.P.
’s right-of-way. In other business, the Port of the Plains board will continue reviewing its proposed 2025 budget and discuss seeking proposals for locally based legal services and inland port operations. Get local news delivered to your inbox! Special projects reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
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