Moulder calls it a re-affirmation

What Scott Moulder heard at a meeting today was music to the ears of the Oconee County administrator. What the South Carolina State Ports Authority has to offer in the way of its main port in Charleston and its new in-land port at Greer is a re-affirmation, Moulder says, of the county’s partnership with Seneca to further adapt industrial property on the Shiloh Road to manufacturers needing a quick way to reach their markets. At this morning’s business forum of the Oconee Economic Alliance, Moulder asked Jack Ellenburg of the Ports Authority about the timeline for transporting products by rail to the sea. Specific on the mind of the county administrator is the potential for the Seneca Rail Site, the former Pro Pex plant, to add tenants who can take advantage of railroad line in place. And, in an interview afterward, Moulder disclosed to 96.3/WGOG NEWS that one of three economic development prospects on Monday’s agenda of the county council is a company that would have “Upstate impacts and will benefit from that in-land port tying in with Charleston.” Jack Ellenburg, senior vice president of economic development and projects for the State Ports Authority, had just finished a presentation in which he highlighted the first-year in-land port at Greer, which is connected by rail to the state port at Charleston. And the Charleston Harbor Port was described by Ellenburg as one of the ninth busiest ports in the country.