The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is\nawarding a $5.2 million American Rescue Plan Act grant to support\ninfrastructure improvements at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport\n(GSP), according to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District (District) will\nprovide $3.4 million in local matching funds to the $5.2 million EDA investment\nfor infrastructure improvements at GSP for a total investment of $8.6 million.\nImprovements will include the expansion of the airport\u2019s air cargo apron and\nthe extension of a roadway and utilities to facilitate the continued expansion\nof air cargo facilities at GSP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Air cargo activity at GSP has increased significantly in\nrecent years. In 2021, the airport experienced a record-breaking 96,800 tons of\ncargo, an increase of over 48% from 2020. Included in that total is over 47,600\ntons of international freight valued at $5.46 billion, an increase in value of\n25.1% over 2020. In 2021, GSP was ranked #21 in the nation in terms of\ninternational freight tonnage handled according to USTradeNumbers.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $5.2 million American Rescue Plan Act grant to support infrastructure improvements at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), according to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport District (District) will provide $3.4 million in local matching funds to the $5.2 million EDA investment for infrastructure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GSP-Cargo-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22296,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions\/22296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}