Burns Harbor Port Expansion Near Complete, Railcar Storage Up 1,200%, Grant Deadline June 27

Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor in Portage is nearing completion of a roughly $100 million infrastructure buildout: railcar storage capacity expanded 1,200%, adding 250 additional railcar slots and enabling unit train service; ocean-vessel handling capacity is up 35% with three new ship berths; and Louis Dreyfus, one of the global big-four agri-commodities firms, with 2024 net sales of $50.6 billion, is set to reopen the port's international grain export terminal, which closed in 2023. The FY26 MARAD Port Infrastructure Development Program has $488.6 million in discretionary grants available with applications closing June 27. If your inbound raw materials or outbound finished goods move through the Calumet corridor, pull your current routing contracts and run the unit-train economics against what Burns Harbor now offers before that deadline passes.