The board of commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) voted December 17 on several measures authorizing Brandy Christian, president and CEO of the port, to begin entering… Read More
Louisiana
Turn Services, a New Orleans-based barge fleeting and shifting company that also offers barge repair and cleaning services, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and business of… Read More
Conrad Shipyard has announced delivery of a pair of 30,000-barrel asphalt barges to Parker Towing Company of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Named the PTC 2001 and the PTC 2002, the double-skinned barges… Read More
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana has announced indictments for 31 people connected to an alleged test score-fixing enterprise at a U.S. Coast Guard exam center… Read More
Conrad Industries Inc. reported November 16 a net loss of $3.6 million, or -72 cents per share, for the third quarter. That compares to net income of $938,000, or 20… Read More
Brandy Christian, president and CEO of the Port of New Orleans and CEO of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB), received the 2020 C. Alvin Bertel Award November 18… Read More
Officials from Louisiana’s Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA), the agency tasked with overseeing efforts to breathe new life into the state’s vanishing coastline, hosted a webinar October 21 focused… Read More
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced September 29 the approval of $215 million to build two coastal habitat restoration projects in Southeast Louisiana. Funding, approved by the Louisiana Trustee Implementation… Read More
Hurricane Zeta made landfall close to 4 p.m. October 28 near the south Louisiana town of Cocodrie with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph., just short of reaching Category 3… Read More
Almost six years have passed since the Port of Morgan City saw its last foreign-flagged ship call on the port. From late 2014 to early 2015, 22 ships called on… Read More
