Author: Paul G. Aucoin, Executive Director

Port of South Louisiana has been dealt a unique set of challenges over the past decade. We’ve proven we can handle anything as a Port: high water, tariffs, hurricanes, a global pandemic. We can handle it! Not that it’s easy,…

Hurricane Ida made landfall on the coast of southeast Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina -August 29, 2021- as a strong category 4 hurricane. In its wake, more than one million Louisianians were left without power, partly due…

In direct response to increased throughput and the demand for efficient cargo handling, the Port of South Louisiana has continued to work on bringing current infrastructure to working standards while improving the linked transportation network, increasing capacity and addressing any…

In direct response to increased throughput and the demand for efficient cargo handling, the Port of South Louisiana keeps working on bringing current infrastructure to working standards while improving the linked transportation network, increasing capacity and addressing any bottlenecks, aiming…

While much has changed since the Port of South Louisiana was founded in 1960, so much has stayed the same, too. The Port is still a prime economic engine for business and commerce in its tri-parish jurisdiction, and it continues…

2020 has been a year of challenges for everyone, including the Port of South Louisiana, thanks to the world-wide Covid-19 pandemic. In March, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a statewide public health emergency, leading to a temporary lockdown of…

Throughout the COVID-19 health crisis, Port of South Louisiana facilities operated as normal as possible while carefully following strict best-practice directives from state and federal agencies. Concurrently, the Mississippi River experienced a high-water event earlier in the season than normal,…