Shipments will help port expand import-export reach BY ZACHARY Above, Planters Rice Mill employees work Thursday morning to load rice from a truck onto a barge at the Port of Morgan City’s dock. They used an electricallypowered conveyer belt to transfer the rice. About 3,500 tons will be loadedinto two barges at the port, where it will stay until a ship arrives…
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD The Port of Morgan City’s Government $11 million Emergency and Operations Center is shown April 15. It is located on La. 182 adjacent to the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. The center is scheduled to be finished by September. Throughout the past year, lots of activity has been going on at and…
Above, a November 2014 photo shows Planters Rice Mill of Abbeville exporting ricefrom the Port of Morgan City for the first time. Trucks transported about 150 truckloads of rice to the port in order to export 3,000 tons of rice by ship to Haiti. Below, rice is shown as it is transferred from a truck to a barge. 4,000 tons of rice on way to Haiti BY…
This file photo shows an aerial view of the Port of Morgan City. A national study released this week found that coastal ports are having an increasing economic impact on their communities. Legislators push to get money for maintenance A nationwide study of ports released Tuesday shows a big increase in the impact of coastal…
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD Import-export business at the Port of Morgan City is on the rise and has steadily increased since the first ship of that kind came to the port in August 2014, port officials say. Port of Morgan City Executive Director Raymond “Mac” Wade said getting into the import-export business within the past…
By ZACHARY FITZGERALD MORGAN CITY — Today’s trip to Washington, D.C., for Port of Morgan City Executive Director Raymond “Mac” Wade will be one to both thank federal officials for their help to get additional funding to dredge the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel and to let them know that more funding is still needed,…