By: Tegan Wendland, Reporter Two major Louisiana shipping hubs will see improvements this week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. New sensor systems will make navigation safer and allow for more efficient ship traffic at the Port of Morgan City and the Port of Fourchon. (NOAA) The Physical Oceanographic Real Time System, or PORTS,…
The Oslo Bulk 9, a 360-foot cargo ship, arrived Monday at the Port of Morgan City to export 3,500 tons of rice to Haiti for Planters Rice Mill in Abbeville. On Tuesday, workers were loading rice onto the ship from barges. Port Director Raymond “Mac” Wade expects the ship to leave the port tonight.Published by Daily Review 5/6/15
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, helped host a 2015 Hurricane Preparedness Public Meeting Tuesday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. Though meteorologists are forecasting a below average year for hurricane activity in the Atlantic, one big storm can make a season. Forecasters expect sevennamed storms, three hurricanes and one major hurricane of Category 3 or greater, said Andy Patrick, meteorologist in charge of the National…
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…