Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville (Jeffersonville, Indiana)

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The Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville (formerly the Clark Maritime Center) which opened in 1988, is a public riverport operated by the Indiana Ports Commission. This intermodal transportation gateway is located on the northern bank of the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, Ind., directly across the river from Louisville, Ky. This location is within a one-day drive of more than two-thirds of the U.S. market and is adjacent to the "automotive and appliance alley."

The state of Kentucky, fueled mainly by the aforementioned outcries of its wealthy riverbank citizens, decided in 1979 to level a lawsuit in a federal court against Indiana claiming that Kentucky, in fact, owned Indiana's Ohio River shoreline due to its 1792 statehood boundary lines. Such a lawsuit carried with it grave prospects both for the current establishment of a Jeffersonville port and for the establishment or existence of any port anywhere on Indiana's Ohio River, including the already completed Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon.

Kentucky, in 1792, would have had a legitimate claim to Indiana's shoreline, since its state boundaries did encompass the Ohio River as it flowed at the time. But at the time of the lawsuit, the river was several meters higher than it had been in 1792, effectively stretching the shoreline into Indiana territory. For this reason Indiana won the suit, and at last, construction on the port began in earnest with a 1982 groundbreaking ceremony.

The port was officially dedicated in 1988.