Cargo worked at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge’s public docks in 2014 more than doubled over 2013, according to year-end statistics from the port.
In 2014, the port handled more than 9.2 million tons of cargo, an increase of more than 100% over the 4.2 million tons that passed through in 2013. Officials with the port attribute the growth to a new grain elevator completed in late 2013 by Louis Dreyfus Commodities, a European grain exporter. The company operates the facility through a long-term lease but it is located on port-owned property, so it is considered part of the port’s public facilities.
“That’s really where the growth is coming from,” says Karen St. Cyr, spokesperson with the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. “You can look at the data and see how as soon as that facility came online, the numbers shot up.”
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