Mac Wade, director of the Port of Morgan City, was the August guest of the Bayouland Emergency Amateur Radio Service. He presented an in-depth assessment of the port’s responsibilities and long-range goals. Of particular interest was an update on the new emergency center that is nearing completion and the role that communication will play in this new building.…
Port of Morgan City Executive Director Raymond “Mac” Wade speaks during the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board meeting held Wednesday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. Wade requested that the port’s dredging projects be included in the state’s coastal master plan citing the potential beneficial use of dredge material to restore the coast. At right is…
Architect Carl Blum, left, speaks to Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District commissioners Joseph Cain, Scott Melancon and Gary Duhon during a tour of the Port of Morgan City’s Government Emergency and Operations Center Monday. The center is scheduled to be substantially complete by mid-October. BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD Some minor issues have pushed back…
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD Malte B, a 300-foot ship based in Antigua and Barbados, arrived Wednesday at the Port of Morgan City to export 2,500 tons of rice to Haiti. The trip is the 19th that an import-export ship has made to the Port of Morgan City since August 2014. For the 19th time in…
Channel 3 KATC news report on new operations center.
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD Darren Wright, physical oceanographic real-time system program manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, speaks Monday about the two new stations recently installed in the Atchafalaya River Bar Channel. As of Monday, mariners now have access to more real-time weather and waterway information in the Atchafalaya River to assist them in their navigation efforts and decision making. Two Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System…