The Atchafalaya River Bar Channel should be properly dredged and open to vessel traffic by early 2019. Many people in the Tri-City area’s maritime industry have been awaiting that news for several years. The Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission met Monday. Millions of dollars in additional funds to dredge waterways in the Port…
Officials with the Port of Morgan City and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are working with businesses to ensure all of the tonnage that passes through the port is accounted for so that the port can receive adequate long-term funding. The Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission met Monday. Tom Podany, director of the…
The Coast Guard has a three-tiered system of Maritime Security (MARSEC) levels consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS). MARSEC Levels are designed to provide a means to easily communicate pre-planned scalable responses to increased threat levels. The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard sets MARSEC levels commensurate with the…
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District (“District”) has determined that it is in the best interest of the District to cease its efforts to construct an agitation dredge for the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel and as such, bids for provision of Agitation Dredge Pumps currently scheduled for opening on December 15, 2017…
EXPIRED The Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District (“MCHTD”) is soliciting proposals from qualified contractors for its following projects: (1) upgrade and modification of video systems at MCHTD’s facility; (2) upgrade and installation of computer systems, (3) communications & equipment cabling and (4) maintenance and sustainability of two meteorological stations (MET Stations) owned by the…
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins’ No. 1 priority in Congress is to ensure south Louisiana’s ports get the dredging funds they were promised and can be economic engines for the region, he said Monday. Higgins, R-Lafayette, visited the Port of Morgan City’s Government Emergency Operations Center for a stakeholders meeting with officials in the area. Port…