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Big Ship Ready: No
Rail: BNSF, CN, CSX, KCS, NS, UP
Highways: I-10, I-12, U.S. 55, U.S. 59, U.S. 90
Days to Panama Canal: 15
Top Exports: Forest Products, Steel, Food
Cargo Types: Bulk, Containers
What infrastructure additions has the port made to support shippers over the past two years?
We continue to develop incrementally our Napoleon Avenue container terminal, a 12-acre site with a near-dockside rail facility that will take us from our capacity of 640,000 TEUs to 840,000 approaching the magical million number. In fact, we have a footprint for 1.7 million.
What’s your most under-appreciated asset?
I think the Mississippi River. It’s a God-given gift for us. No other port anywhere can boast of a river that has navigable waterways for 14,500 miles into 33 states and three Canadian provinces; that’s our market area. Because of the Mississippi, all six class-one railroads came here, giving customers direct access to a 133,000-mile rail network.
What’s your elevator pitch?
I think the fact that we’re a multi-purpose, general cargo port. I’d talk about all the improvements, the $20 billion in flood gates since Katrina, the fact that we’re a value-added port with $80 billion of indirect foreign investment and that New Orleans is not a Louisiana port, it’s a port of national significance in the global community.
