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2. Higgins Industries - Wikipedia

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   A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...

3. Avondale Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   It closed in October 2014. The yard was located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in an area called Bridge City, about 20 miles (32 km) upriver from New Orleans near Westwego, Louisiana. It was the site of the modernization of the battleship USS Iowa in the early 1980s and also constructed some of the lighter aboard ships (LASH). At one ...

4. Port of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. Anchor Line (riverboat company) - Wikipedia

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   Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.

6. Boat show to bike ride: What's happening this weekend ... - AOL

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   Get ready to celebrate the end of summer in style at the Tiverton Farmers Market's SUMMA SIZZLA at Tiverton Town Farm Recreational Area, 3588 Main Road, Rt.77. on Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

7. Amelia Belle Casino - Wikipedia

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   The name was later changed to Bally’s Belle of New Orleans. In 2004, the casino managed to have the property re-assessed by the Louisiana Tax Commission for $6.5 million, citing the market prices of former casino boats, even though Bally's was still in operation at the time.