South Louisiana ports look to dredging of channels as catalyst for growth

TERMINAL EXPANSION: The finger pier at the Port of South Louisiana’s Globalplex Intermodal Terminal in Reserve. The $19.5 million project came online in April 2013. Courtesy Port of South Louisiana.

The leaders of Louisiana’s deepwater ports are clamoring for deeper, more consistently maintained river channels, and their voices are getting louder. An increase in channel depths, they say, will…


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