Port Bienville Industrial Park is located in Hancock County, the State of Mississippi's southernmost county, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico at the state line with Louisiana. Port Bienville Industrial Park is located within the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area. In 2009, the population of Hancock County, Mississippi, was estimated at almost 41 thousand people.

The Port Bienville Industrial Park is about 50 nautical miles (72 kilometers or 45 miles direct) west-southwest of the Port of Biloxi. Port Bienville Industrial Park is also about 36 nautical miles (58 kilometers or 36 miles director northeast of the Port of New Orleans.

The Hancock County Development Commission owns and operates the Port Bienville Industrial Park. The county offers many advantages for business. The Port Bienville Industrial Park is just 40 minutes from the New Orleans Airport and its deep-water port, and it is only 30 minutes from the Gulfport/Biloxi International Airport and the Port of Gulfport. A population of 1.5 million people lives within an hour's drive of the Port Bienville Industrial Park.

An excellent road trucking network and offers access from the Port Bienville Industrial Park to US Highways 90 and 49 and to US Interstate Highways 10, 12, and 59. The county-owned cargo port at the Port Bienville Industrial Park offers marine access through the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and the Port Bienville Industrial Park is served by Class 1 rail services.

As a right-to-work state (union membership not mandatory), Mississippi and Hancock County offer highly competitive workforce and other businesses costs. It has an affordable housing market, with more than 20 golf courses less than an hour away, and plentiful opportunities for recreation and cultural activities. NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, the country's biggest rocket engine test complex, is located in Hancock County, assuring an outstanding science and technology workforce pool.

The Hancock County Development Commission offers more advantages that appeal to businesses seeking a new location. It has more than 800 acres of manufacturing site locations. State and local tax exemptions and incentives make the Port Bienville Industrial Park even more attractive.

Port Bienville Industrial Park is within the Mississippi Coast Foreign Trade Zone #92 comprised of five thousand acres of secured sites located at ports, airports, and industrial parks in the Mississippi counties of Hancock, Jackson, and Harrison. Hancock County and the Port Bienville Industrial Park have 775 acres of foreign trade zone allocated space.

Owned and operated by the Hancock County Development Commission, Port Bienville Industrial Park is a 1.5-hectare industrial property that is now home to 18 industries. Port Bienville Industrial Park has direct connections with US Highway. It is just 16 kilometers (ten miles) from US Interstate Highway 10 and only 29 kilometers (18 miles) from the intersection of Interstate Highways 10, 12, and 59.

Port Bienville Industrial Park contains multiple berths with alongside depth of 3.7 meters (12 feet). Connected to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Port Bienville Industrial Park is also served by the Port Bienville Shortline Railroad and then CSX Rail Transport. Several facilities line the Port Bienville Industrial Park Canal where the county and private businesses handle cargo. All with alongside depths at the wharves are 3.7 meters (12 feet) MLW.

The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission owns and operates its own Wharf on the Port Bienville Industrial Park Canal to receive a variety of dry bulk commodities and heavy-lift cargoes. The wharf has a five-acre open storage area at the rear. The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission Wharf at the Port Bienville Industrial Park has berthing distance of 76.2 meters (250 feet).

The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission owns, and Contract Stevedores Inc. operates a section of the Port Bienville Wharf on the Port Bienville Industrial Park Canal to ship and receive conventional general cargo. A slip on the lower side of the wharf offers additional berthing space. A 3.4-thousand square meter (37 thousand square foot) steel frame metal warehouse is located behind the transit shed at this Port Bienville Industrial Park wharf, and there is about one acre of open storage at the rear of the wharf. One surface rail track connects the rear transit shed with the Port Bienville Railroad. The Port Bienville Wharf has berthing distance of 122 feet (400 meters) with alongside depth of 2.4 meters (eight feet) MLW on the first side and 3.7 meters (12 feet) MLW on the second side.

Halter Marine Group Inc. owns, and Gulf Coast Fabrication Inc. operates a section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to occasionally ship steel and fabricated parts by barge and to moor vessels for repair and outfitting. On the upper side of the wharf is a shipbuilding-and-launching way slip. A 22 thousand square meter (72.7 thousand square foot) graving dock is located in the ship above the ship-and-launching way. This section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf has berthing distance of 304.8 meters (one thousand feet).

The Gulf Concrete Company owns and operates a section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to receive crushed limestone by barge. The company has about an acre of open storage with capacity to store about five thousand tons of limestone. This section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf has berthing distance of 121.9 meters (400 feet).

Kimberly-Clark Corporation owns and operates an area of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to ship logs by barge. The company maintains about 18 acres of open storage area at the rear with capacity for about 45 thousand tons of logs. The Kimberly-Clark section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park has berthing distance of 121.9 meters (400 feet).

Manufab Inc. owns and operates a 121.9-meter (400-foot) section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to ship fabricated products by barge. Their steel fabrication plant is located at the rear on Port and Harbor Road.

Professional Construction Services Inc. owns and operates berthing distance of 61.0 meters (200 feet) at the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to receive coal by barge and to ship fabricated steel product. Coal is unloaded directly into trucks from the barges.

SSA Marine operates a 61-meter (200-foot) section of the Port Bienville Industrial Park Wharf to receive coal and other dry-bulk commodities. Dry-bulk cargoes are loaded directly into trucks via a receiving hopper. The company also has an additional 61-meter (200-foot) of berthing space on the upper side of the wharf.

General Electric Plastics owns and operates the Bay St. Louis Plant Wharf at the Port Bienville Industrial Park Canal to receive liquid chemicals by barge. The wharf is equipped with three pipelines connecting the wharf to three steel storage tanks with total capacity for three million gallons located at the chemical plant to the rear of the wharf. Three surface rail tracks serve the chemical plant and connect with the Port Bienville Railroad. The Bay St. Louis Plant Wharf in the Port Bienville Industrial Park has berthing distance of 91.4 meters (300 feet).

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