Utah Inland Port Authority COO Jill Flygare talks about their new agreement with the Port of Oakland and what that means for the state as a whole…

The Inland Port project–which gets some people excited, others not so much–has continued to move forward during the pandemic. To get us up to speed on what’s going on, Boyd is joined by Utah Inland Port Authority Executive Director Jack Hedge. They explore the economic and environmental pros and cons of the expansive project…  

The US domestic supply chain has been stricken by the increase in demand and subsequent congestion at many of its largest gateways, a crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some experts have called the country’s infrastructure to be upgraded as a result…

As Americans spend more time in their own homes, they are increasing their spending habits in ways that have overwhelmed supply lines around the United States. Specifically, the bottleneck of the western U.S. ports has become a continued problem as docking wait times have doubled, or even tripled, from averages of recent years…

Gov. Spencer Cox signed 56 more bills Monday, including several related to investments in rural Utah. Among the bills Cox signed at his rural office in Cedar City was SB243, creating a $75 million “infrastructure bank,” a new funding mechanism for low-interest loans for Utah Inland Port Authority projects. Legislative leaders said they intend for that bank to help provide

A bill to create a funding mechanism for low-interest loans for Utah Inland Port Authority projects on and off the Wasatch Front swiftly cleared another legislative hurdle Tuesday…

For the past three years, the Utah Legislature has made tweaks to the state’s inland port project. This year’s bill, which passed a Senate committee Monday morning, creates a “bank” to distribute $75 million in loans for inland port infrastructure throughout the state…

The Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA) closed out 2020 with a $171,000 distribution for affordable housing expenditures in Salt Lake City. Supporting affordable housing to promote equity and workforce housing needs is a key strategy in UIPA’s Strategic Business Plan, the authority board said…

In another step to advance the research of sustainable electrified vehicles, Utah State University is asking state higher education officials to authorize the university to issue up to $9.2 million in revenue bonds to update and expand its Electric Vehicle and Roadway building…

It sounds like a children’s riddle. What is not a location but is instead a system? What do people envision as a single place but will instead be statewide? What has a starting point but no end? The answer is Utah’s Inland Port. But whatever it becomes and whenever it is developed, it appears to certainly be welcome in rural

The Salt Lake Chamber held an informative and important webinar regarding federal stimulus negotiations, vaccine distribution plans, and logistical importance of Utah in the nation’s cold chain network. This network of airplanes, airports, warehouses, refrigerated trucks comprises a physical logistics system that covers the United States. Participants included Senator Mitt Romney, Utah Department of Health (UDOH) Executive Director Rich Saunders,

After a briefing about the work and goals of the Utah Inland Port Authority, members of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board came away impressed but also concerned that the authority’s messages are hitting a wall. The board’s November meeting featured a long discussion about the port. Jack Hedge, the authority’s executive director, spelled out its importance and