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The Port of New Orleans is the only deep-water container port in Louisiana. It has an annual capacity of 840,000 TEU, with six gantry cranes to handle 10,000 TEU vessels. Four new 100-foot gauge gantry cranes were ordered spring/summer 2019 and are under construction. There are regular container-on-barge services and on-dock rail access with ...
The Louisiana International Terminal or LIT is an approved project for a container port at the mouth of the Mississippi. It will be at St. Bernard Parish in Violet and allow container ships with 50-foot drafts – and unlimited lengths, widths, and heights.
The ports of New Orleans, South Louisiana, and Baton Rouge cover 172 miles (277 km) on both banks of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (now closed by a rock dike built across the channel at Bayou La Loutre) extends 67 miles (108 km) from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the channel up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge runs at a 48-foot (14 ...
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ZIP codes: 71301-03, 06–07, 09, 11, 15 ... and parade goers can enjoy over 20 New Orleans style floats, high school and college marching bands, as well as ...
A Louisiana Highway Department gravel truck driver pauses in front of his orange-colored vehicle (1972). The new Louisiana Constitution of 1976 (adopted in 1974) and Act 83 of 1977 abolished the Departments of Highways and Public Works and restructured them into the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), thereby encompassing related activities such as highways, public works ...
Intracoastal City (French: Ville Intercôtière) is an unincorporated community in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. [1] It is situated on the west bank of the Vermilion River at its junction with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and has various port facilities and some permanent residents.
Colfax is a town in, and the parish seat of, Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States, [4] founded in 1869. Colfax is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana metropolitan area. The largely African American population of Colfax counted 1,558 at the 2010 census. [5]