NITL in New Orleans

The city and Port of New Orleans have been roaring back since the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina struck ten years ago.

Further proof of that rebound was provided by the National Industrial Transportation League, which announced it would be staging its Annual Conference and Freight Exhibition in the “Big Easy” in November.

Confirmed speakers include Daniel R. Elliott III, the Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board, and Mario Cordero, the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. Leading transportation economist Dr. Walter Kemmsies and transportation analyst Larry Gross are on the program, as are Port of Long Beach Chief Executive Jon Slangerup and his counterpart in Virginia, John Reinhart, along with the Intermodal Carriers Conference Executive Director Curtis Whalen.

More details can be found at http://www.nitl.org

As noted in a recent LM feature, The Port of New Orleans is a deep-draft multipurpose port at the center of the world’s busiest port system — Louisiana’s Lower Mississippi River. Connected to major inland markets and Canada via 14,500 miles of waterways, six class-1 railroads and the interstate highway system, the port also serves shippers of steel, project cargo, containers, coffee, natural rubber, chemicals, forest products, manufactured and goods.

An extensive network of ocean carrier services, along with added-value services like transloading of bulk into containers, make the Port of New Orleans the superior logistics solution for many types of cargo. To stay ahead of market demand, the port has invested more than $100 million in capital improvement projects since 2012 and has a Master Plan to expand the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal to an annual capacity of 1.6 million TEUs.