THE Port of New Orleans (NOLA) moved an all-time high of 591,253 TEU last year, an increase of 12.3 per cent year on year.
The record marks the fifth consecutive year that NOLA has surpassed the half million TEU mark at its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, operated by New Orleans Terminal and Ports America.
'The expansion of the Panama Canal and growth in containerised exports, namely resin and frozen poultry, have buoyed NOLA's containerised cargo to record levels. In addition, loaded imported containers rose seven per cent,' NOLA president Brandy Christian said in American Shipper.
'We anticipate further growth, as direct all-water carrier services to Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean attract larger vessels,' he said.
The arrival in October of the Pusan C, a 9,500-TEU vessel operated by CMA CGM, marked the largest containership to ever call.
NOLA is also growing the nation's largest container-on-barge service in partnership with the port of Greater Baton Rouge and operator SEACOR AMH. In 2018 that service moved 26,759 TEU by barge, up 58 per cent year on year.
The service repositions containers from Memphis to Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, where they are loaded with plastic resins and shipped by barge to NOLA to be loaded onto containerships for export to global markets.
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The record marks the fifth consecutive year that NOLA has surpassed the half million TEU mark at its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, operated by New Orleans Terminal and Ports America.
'The expansion of the Panama Canal and growth in containerised exports, namely resin and frozen poultry, have buoyed NOLA's containerised cargo to record levels. In addition, loaded imported containers rose seven per cent,' NOLA president Brandy Christian said in American Shipper.
'We anticipate further growth, as direct all-water carrier services to Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean attract larger vessels,' he said.
The arrival in October of the Pusan C, a 9,500-TEU vessel operated by CMA CGM, marked the largest containership to ever call.
NOLA is also growing the nation's largest container-on-barge service in partnership with the port of Greater Baton Rouge and operator SEACOR AMH. In 2018 that service moved 26,759 TEU by barge, up 58 per cent year on year.
The service repositions containers from Memphis to Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, where they are loaded with plastic resins and shipped by barge to NOLA to be loaded onto containerships for export to global markets.
WORLD SHIPPING