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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:31 pm to
Posted by dallastigers
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:31 pm to
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Birmingham has a port on the river. Also, the Navy used to have a pier on the river as well.


What river? I see what looks to be creeks requiring dams to look closer to a river regardless of what they are labeled.

Is the training going to be like the sailing class on Community?



Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:34 pm to
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Guess they will work closely with the Navy training base in the port city of Meridian, Mississippi
sonny montgomery brought home the pork
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:37 pm to
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It is an inland port. Port Birmingham is north of downtown.


It’s more west of the city. And it’s called Birmingport…

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Alabama's largest inland port, located on the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County, connecting Central Alabama to the Port of Mobile and global markets via river, rail, and road. It serves as a major logistics hub for industries like steel and construction, handling bulk, break-bulk, and liquid commodities, and is expanding with new infrastructure like warehouses to boost economic activity and reduce highway congestion.





A lot of the coal mined in Walker, Tuscaloosa, and Jefferson counties goes here to be loaded onto barges and sent downriver to Mobile for shipment overseas.
This post was edited on 3/4/26 at 8:40 pm
Posted by Darth_Vader
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:43 pm to
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What river? I see what looks to be creeks requiring dams to look closer to a river regardless of what they are labeled.


It’s located on the Locust Fork* of the Black Warrior River.

* Not to be confused with the town of Locust Fork which is located north of Bham in Blount County. The Port of Birmingham, or “Birmingport”, is actually west of the city close to the “three corners” of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, and Walker counties.
Posted by Evolved Simian
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Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:57 pm to
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Wouldn’t Mobile or a city on the other side of the bay make more sense for the coast guard in Alabama?


Does Mobile have lots of really nice and totally vacant college campuses lying around?
Posted by Lou Loomis
A pond. Ponds good for you.
Member since Mar 2025
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 8:59 pm to
Is it because of all the non swimmers there? Maybe they can practice rescuing them from their bathtubs.
Posted by Archives
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:00 pm to
Think about this…. If you average out all of the US coastline, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf of America, geographically, it’s probably somewhere near Birmingham .
Posted by bamacoullion
Fayette, Alabama
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:19 pm to
Anticipating a big change in coastline are we?
Posted by Megasaurus
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 9:24 pm to
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In a state full of people who frick their family members


Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10194 posts
Posted on 3/4/26 at 10:29 pm to
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Wouldn’t Mobile or a city on the other side of the bay make more sense for the coast guard in Alabama?


Does Mobile have lots of really nice and totally vacant college campuses lying around?


I mean it has the Gulf of America, a bay, a coastline, and so on which seems kind of important for training with the Coast Guard. But I guess they take a raft down one of those creeks and get on the ocean in a day or so from Birmingham.

It also does not have Birmingham which is a positive even for Mobile.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10194 posts
Posted on 3/4/26 at 10:33 pm to
So basically a de facto creek in most places where it has been dammed up.

Is there a connection from the closed down Birmingham Southern campus that does require a boat trailer?
Posted by Mr Breeze
The Lunatic Fringe
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 11:20 pm to
Odds of seasickness on land greatly diminished.

Smart move.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
95254 posts
Posted on 3/4/26 at 11:40 pm to
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This is a great development for Birmingham and the region.


You guys have been killing it the last few years with companies going to Bama. I’m most impressed and they are crappy companies either.

Development in the state has been solid for you guys.
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