Wurtland Riverport

Location

The Boyd Greenup (Kentucky) Riverport Authority is a general cargo port within an eight-hour drive of 60 percent of the U.S.’s manufacturing. It is located at mile 233 on the Ohio River, 16 miles north of I-64 via Industrial Highway 67.

Sites: Industrial sites are available within and adjacent to the port boundaries with sites suitable for heavy industrial uses, metalworking, chemicals and warehousing.

Advantages

• Highly competitive land prices
• Stevedore service available
• Marathon Marine Barge Company, largest U.S. barge operator is headquartered in Boyd County, Kentucky
• Foreign Trade Zone 278
• Served by Ashland Regional Airport
• CSX Rail System
• Easy highways access to U.S. 52, U.S. 23 and Interstate 64

Aerial View of Wurtland Riverport

This Wurtland Riverport aerial view is at mile 233 on the Ohio River. Developed and undeveloped land is available at the port.

Assets & Infrastructure

Wurtland Riverport provides a great combination of site-ready characteristics, infrastructure and transportation network.

Characteristics

• 20 acres total available; flat terrain

• Ownership: Port authority owns 14 developed acres at site, and 15 undeveloped acres downstream. Greenup and Boyd Counties own an additional 35 acres in the immediate vicinity. Another 90 acres is privately owed

• Warehousing: 25,000-SF warehouse on site, currently short-term leased for handling of aggregate

• Services: Barge-to-truck offloading for granular commodities and break-bulk commodities; stevedoring

Transportation

• Main highway access via Kentucky 67 (Industrial Parkway); 1-64 interchange 16 miles via

• Kentucky 67. U.S. 23, 0.3 mile from port, 1-64 interchange 19 miles via U.S. 23

• CSX rail service on site with liquid trans-load facility

• Ashland Regional (general aviation) 2 miles; Commercial airports: Tri-State Airport, Huntingdon, WV., 20 miles; Yeager Airport, Charleston WV. (CRW) 65 miles; nearest major hub, Cincinnati (CVG) 135 miles

Infrastructure

Utilities:

• AEP/Kentucky Electric Power

• Columbia Gas of Kentucky, 6-inch line on site

• Wurtland Water Department, 8-inch main on site, 1.1 million gpd excess capacity

• Wurtland Sewer Department, 8-inch gravity flow main on site, 374,000 gpd excess capacity

• Broadband providers: Windstream, Armstrong Utilities, Time Warner Cable

ADDITIONAL WURTLAND RIVERPORT SITE INFORMATION & DOWNLOADS