USDA provides $74 million to support rural Alabama businesses
The United States Department of Agriculture invested $75 million in loan guarantees to help six rural businesses across Alabama in fiscal year 2021. The investments were made through the Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program and the Business and Industry CARES Act Program. – Gulf Coast News Today
Peabody’s Shoal Creek mine could reopen
A mine closed for almost a year could reopen under a tentative agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and Peabody Energy, the company that owns the mine. The Shoal Creek mine in Jefferson, Walker and Tuscaloosa counties closed in October, and 350 union employees were laid off. – AL.com
Carnival delays Mobile restart until January
Carnival Cruise Line announced it will delay its planned sailing restart out of Mobile from October to January 2022. The company also said it’s working to set up pre-cruise rapid testing sites at all of its homeports. – Fox 10
Mobile companies sign pact for work in Guyana
Mobile-based Myer Marine Services and Hargrove Engineers + Constructors have signed a pact with a firm in Guyana that wants to grow the oil and gas sector in the South American nation. The agreement is to forge a close collaboration between those two companies and Guyana-based GAICO Construction. – Made in Alabama
