Insiders identify critical issues for Louisiana industry
To identify and discuss issues they feel will be most impactful, a four-member panel convened last fall at L’Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge during...
Showdown over new tank car standards
A battle is brewing over just how stringent industry standards for tank cars should be, and the outcome will have dramatic implications for Louisiana.
Freight...
Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles is a unique industrial development engine
From the ashes of the oil bust in the mid-1980s, Chennault International Airport was born, more than 30 years after the shuttering of the...
Shippers take advantage of new direct service from New Orleans to South America
In mid-August, the Pomerenia Sky arrived at the Port of New Orleans, marking the beginning of a new direct service from Louisiana to the...
Competition, technology and safety are the key drivers in today’s heavy lifting industry
As industrial owners design vessels and structures that are heavier, taller and in increasingly tighter spaces, the facilitators of their installations—the heavy lifting industry—have...
A new container-on-barge shuttle service between the Port of New Orleans and Baton Rouge...
As the chemical industry continues to boom in Louisiana and the Gulf South region, SEACOR AMH has created a new container-on-barge shuttle service from...
Long underrepresented in manufacturing, women are now changing the workforce at Louisiana plants
Everything seemed to be going according to plan for Lauren Cordell, a Sulphur High School valedictorian and Louisiana Tech University graduate. She had met...
Intermarine’s coke drum challenge
In June Intermarine LLC transported four coke drums on the MV Ocean Freedom from Gijon, Spain, to New Orleans. The cargo was transported for...
The Big Picture: Milestone on the sea
FIRST EXPORT
This photo shows the LNG carrier Asia Vision departing Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass liquefaction plant Feb. 24 with the facility’s first shipment of...
The Big Picture: Heavy lifting
THE LIFT
Fracht USA/Germany, a global freight forwarder, completed one of the heaviest project cargo lifts in Port of New Orleans history Jan. 12, successfully...
