Two years after its establishment, the Utah Inland Port Authority’s Mineral Mountains Project Area is demonstrating what coordinated rural investment can achieve. Since its adoption in 2023, the project has attracted new employers, supported renewable energy innovation, and advanced infrastructure across Beaver County. Unitech Manufacturing’s 50-job expansion in Beaver City, Fervo Energy’s geothermal development near Milford, and agricultural manufacturing in

For the state to grow optimally, we must embrace the necessity of moving people and goods efficiently through multimodal transportation options. Utah must also become much more logistically independent.

I joined the Inland Port because I wanted to influence positive change for our planet and our people. I saw an opportunity to reach hearts and change minds, to get involved at the heart of Utah’s growth, the heart of Utah’s future.

To meet our economic and environmental goals, Utah will need all its transportation systems to be robust, reliable and responsible.

Transportation and raw material costs are only part of the puzzle. The bigger challenge to fixing the US supply chain is finding skilled workers.

The pandemic completely upended retailers’ supply chains, and the repercussions are just as prevalent as ever.

Consumers and businesses will continue to experience supply chain disruptions but they won’t last forever

Utah will continue to grow with or without our ‘permission.’ The question is — how will it grow? Why not be smarter, more strategic, and more deliberate about it?

The controversial but needed Utah Inland Port can enhance manufacturing in Utah and other Western states, promising to handle exports and imports more efficiently The nation faces a serious supply chain problem just as the holiday shopping season starts. Can Utah provide some help to solve this and other economic problems?

With cargo ships stacked up off the coast of California, the Utah Inland Port can serve the state well, providing it keeps promises about being environmentally responsible By any objective measure, Utah picked a good time to invest in an inland port. As cargo ships continue to stack up off ports in Southern California, the need to alleviate pressure through rail to

Utah Inland Port Authority is part of the answer to the delays in moving goods. Utah is known as the “Crossroads of the West” due to its central location and unique Golden Spike history. The convergence of an international airport, interconnecting interstate highways and an intermodal railroad create an unparalleled geographic positioning to become an epicenter of the global supply

The logjam at California seaports impacts Utah every day. To say it plainly: We are trying to shove too much stuff through a too small pipe You’ve seen the recent headlines: President Biden talking about 24/7 port schedules, doing Christmas shopping early this year before the shelves are empty, UDOT improving 5600 West in Salt Lake City … the list goes