New port missing rail connection

Click above title for news link. Depending on where you stand on the issues of lifestyle and economic development, talk of increased port traffic is either the sweet drum of river water on the belly of a port ship or the disquieting sound of more container trucks rumbling down Interstate 26. An explosion of new and planned development by eight national and international firms promises to transform the 70-mile stretch of Interstate-26 from Charleston to Orangeburg into a "distribution center corridor." An estimated 20 million square feet of industrial and warehouse space is already in the works, with speculative buildings ranging in size from 200,000 to 1.5 million square feet slated for construction in and around Jedburg within the next year.