Mount Vernon (USYMV)

Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon handles more cargo than any other port in the state. With close proximity to the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, it serves as a major gateway for agricultural, energy, and manufacturing industries. Major cargo: corn, wheat, coal, ethanol, fertilizer, limestone, pig iron, steel coils, salt, soybean products, milo, steel slabs, cement, dried distillers grain, talc, coke, heavy lift cargo. Mount Vernon is the seventh largest inland port on the Inland Waterways System and moves more cargo by water and rail than any other port in Indiana. Coal, grain, ethanol, dried distiller grains (DDG) and steel are the major cargoes handled.

Mount Vernon is located about 150 miles from Louisville, St. Louis and Nashville on the Ohio River.

Approximately 6,600,000t of cargo is handled annually.

HW: 0.03m LW: 0.76m