America’s busiest port complex in southern California has more demand than it can handle - and that’s left smaller hubs along the nation’s coastline – including Florida and Texas - angling for the business. After dealing with supply-chain issues of its own over the summer, California’s Port of Oakland is now ready “to be put to use to help shore up” the crisis, its Maritime Director Bryan Brandes said in October. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has pitched the state’s 15 seaports – including Pensacola on the Gulf Coast - as the relief needed, saying local harbors “are used to operating around the clock.” In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott launched an “Escape California” campaign aimed at attracting carriers to the Gulf Coast. (Source: Bloomberg 11/05/21) Smaller U.S. Ports Pitch for Cargo as California’s Logjams Swell - Bloomberg
Underutilized Mississippi River: ST. LOUIS - FOX 2 has learned a solution to the supply chain shortage may lie, in part, on the Mississippi River. There’s a new plan to send shipping containers from the Panama Canal, through the Gulf of Mexico, and into a port in Missouri. It’s a plan that suddenly has become more than wishful thinking. “We live in a shipping container world. They crisscross the Midwest by train and truck but that’s not working out well. In getting a container to Missouri “you’ve got to bring it in through (Los Angeles),” said Derrick Good, president of the Jefferson County (Mo.) Port Authority. But the Mississippi River is an underutilized shipping highway. It’s time to rethink the business model. The Mississippi is “quickly becoming more important than it’s been in 100 years,” said U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). The Panama Canal has expanded; and can bring larger ships through. “The Port at Plaquemines (La.) is on its way,” Good said. That port is near the mouth of the Mississippi River 20 miles south of the Port of New Orleans. The port provides water access to 33 states. Container ships would head to the Louisiana port from the Panama Canal. A Florida company has designed new river vessels. A larger version would have a capacity to ferry 2,375 20-foot shipping containers (about 1,200 40-foot containers). A smaller version could carry 1,700 20-foot containers (about 850 40-foot containers). It could also change the region’s landscape far beyond the Missouri port with infrastructure improvements for trucks, railyards, ports, locks, and container storage facilities. There’s money for all of that in the recently passed trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, Blunt said. Solution to America’s supply chain woes could lie with the Mississippi River | FOX 2 (fox2now.com)
La. port building transportation network
Plaquemines (La.) Port Harbor and Terminal District is continuing its goal of establishing relationships with sister ports along the Mississippi River, recently executing an MOU with the Jefferson County Port Authority, located just south of St. Louis, Mo. The signing of the memorandum took place at a luncheon hosted by the World Trade Center in New Orleans with Plaquemines Port Chairman Charlie Burt and APH principles Joe Gehagen and Sal Latrico on hand for the signing. Plaquemines Port Executive Director Sandy Sanders said the "relationships we are building ... are the first steps in creating a transportation network between Plaquemines Port and upper ports along the Mississippi River. The Louisian port plans to move thousands of containers as far north as Chicago utilizing the American Patriot Holdings’ (APH) unique container transport vessels. The APH vessels will carry up to 3,000 containers ... making rounds trips possible to Memphis in seven days and St. Louis is 11 days. “The Plaquemines to St. Louis route will be a bedrock service APH intends to implement throughout the Mississippi River Basin. The APH vessels recently completed model testing in Germany and final engineering and design is underway. (Source: PPHTD 11/20/21)
Why no logjam at Port NOLA?
As ships by the hundreds await berths at major American/world ports and consumers endure delayed deliveries, New Orleans residents may ponder why there’s no logjams at the Port of New Orleans; and how it may represent an opportunity. (Source: NOLA.com 11/04/21) Amid a global supply chain crisis, how New Orleans’ port has avoided major shipping delays | News | nola.com
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