Manufacturing

Deepening the Mississippi River’s navigation channel from 45 to 50 feet from the mouth of the river to Baton Rouge will boost the region’s economy, says Mike Strain, Louisiana’s agriculture and forestry commissioner. 

Southwest Louisiana is embarking on a new chapter as it continues to recover from...

U.S. freight rates increased 28% year over year, but declined almost 2% month over month in July, a likely signal that the U.S. market has reached peak freight rates, according to the July Cass Freight report

Local lumber prices have come down about 21% since May, says Karen Zito, president...

Job losses in the Baton Rouge area in June were concentrated in the government sector, though that is likely due to seasonal employment trends, specifically in public education, according to the latest economic indicators report from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. 

Cheniere Energy Inc. is in the early stages to again expand LNG export facilities in Louisiana and Texas following a series of supply

After almost six years working exclusively with the Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District...

The Louisiana Board of Regents has awarded the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Institute for Bioproducts...

BASF announced today that it will invest $19.8 million in its Ascension Parish manufacturing complex to increase production of the chemical intermediates HEP and NOP that are part of the global supply chain for inkjets,

Gov. John Bel Edwards and other officials recently announced the construction of a $110...