By Andy Furman

NKYTribune staff writer

The one thing the Northern Kentucky Port Authority doesn’t operate is a port facility.

Those were the words of Christine Russell to the Covington Rotary Club. Russell is executive director of the NKY Port Authority and VP of Strategy at BE NKY Growth Partnership.

And there’s a logical reason The Port does not operate – a port. There are private operators with a long history of providing those services in the Cincinnati region.

“We’re here,” she told the Northern Kentucky Tribune, “To answer, ‘What can The Port do to support Northern Kentucky?’”

The Northern Kentucky Port Authority was jointly formed as an economic development organization by Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties in 1968.

“The structure,” Russell continued, “is a governmental ent

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