The five-member Warren County Port Commission is the port authority for the Port of Vicksburg. Based on trip ton miles, the Port of Vicksburg was the 11th inland port in the country in 2004. The Port of Vicksburg is located on a slack-water harbor off the Mississippi River.

The 55-hectare Port of Vicksburg contains a 2911-meter (9550-foot) harbor channel that has a minimum width of 91.4 meters (300 feet) and a minimum depth of 3.7 meters (12 feet). An additional 600 acres is available to the Port of Vicksburg for future development. The Port of Vicksburg has a 150-ton crane and two 15-ton overhead cranes. It offers all-weather loading and unloading and three acres of insured warehouse space, and the Port of Vicksburg contains facilities for warehousing liquids. The Port of Vicksburg has direct access from barge to truck to rail via a rail and road loop.

The Port of Vicksburg imports or exports from 800 thousand to 900 thousand tons of cargo a year. Twenty-one businesses and industries employing more than four thousand people operate at the Port of Vicksburg. The port is a designated Foreign Trade Zone and Port of Entry, and it has a United States Customs service. To create more industrial sites, the Warren County Port Commission developed the 542-hectare Ceres Research and Industrial Interplex located on US Interstate 20 about ten miles from the Port of Vicksburg.

The City of Vicksburg owns and operates the City Wharf as a landing for excursion vessels and for mooring a variety of boats. The Port of Vicksburg's City Wharf has berthing distance of 76.2 meters (250 feet) with alongside depth of three meters (10 feet) LWRP.

The Warren County Port Commission owns, and Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals Inc. operates the Port of Vicksburg Terminal Wharf to ship and receive general cargo, machinery, heavy equipment, steel and pipe, paper products, corn pellets, and other dry bulk materials. Two surface rail tracks serve the terminal and connect with the Kansas City Southern Railway.

The Port of Vicksburg Terminal Wharf has about 2830 square meters (30.5 thousand square feet) of paved yards and about 4.5 acres of unpaved open storage area at the rear of the wharf. Four storage warehouses are also located at the rear of the wharf. The Port of Vicksburg Terminal Wharf has berthing distance of 110 meters (360 feet) with alongside depth of 4.6 meters (15 feet) LWRP.

The Warren County Port Commission owns, and Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals Inc. also operates the Port of Vicksburg T-Dock to ship and receive the same cargoes as described above. Two surface rail tracks serve the terminal and connect with the Kansas City Southern Railway. The Port of Vicksburg T-Dock has berthing distance of 48.8 meters (160 feet) with alongside depth of 4.6 meters (15 feet) LWRP.

The US Army Corps of Engineers maintains two wharves in the Port of Vicksburg. The Delta Point Casting Field Landing us used to load precast, concrete, and articulated mattress blocks. It has berthing distance of 975.4 meters (3200 feet) with alongside depths of 3 and 13.7 meters (10 and 45 feet) LWRP. The Corps of Engineers' Vicksburg District Supply Base Mooring in the Port of Vicksburg is used to moor and maintain government-owned floating equipment. The Corps' MAT Sinking Unit has 701 meters (2300 feet) of additional mooring space in the south Port of Vicksburg harbor. With alongside depth of 4.3 meters (14 feet), the Supply Base Mooring in the Port of Vicksburg has berthing distance of 280.4 meters (920 feet) and 61 meters (200 feet).

The United States Coast Guard operates their Port of Vicksburg Moorings to moor their Cutter Kickapoo. The Port of Vicksburg Mooring has berthing distance of 91.4 meters (300 feet) with alongside depth of 2.7 meters (nine feet).

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