Delaware wants to enter what to this point has been a proxy war waged in court by upriver ports against the state’s plans to build a modern container terminal on the Delaware River at Edgemoor.
This week, the Diamond State Port Corp., the quasi-public entity that oversees the Port of Wilmington, filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by upriver ports against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The lawsuit has successfully blocked permits necessary for the state’s planned construction of a new, $635 million container terminal at Edgemoor.
Last month, a judge presiding over the lawsuit ruled that the Army Corps had not followed its own rules in approving permits necessary for Delaware’s port plans. The ruling revoked the permits and amounted to a massive setback in Delaware’s port plans…