Port facilitates international trade
The Oslo Bulk 9, a 360-foot cargo ship, arrived Monday at the Port of Morgan City to export 3,500 tons of rice to Haiti for Planters Rice Mill in Abbeville. On Tuesday, workers were loading rice…
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Experts: Slow storm season shouldn’t deter preparations
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD [email protected] U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, helped host a 2015 Hurricane Preparedness Public Meeting Tuesday at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. Though meteorologists are forecasting a below average year for hurricane activity in the Atlantic,…
Rice bound for Haiti moves through Morgan City
Shipments will help port expand import-export reach BY ZACHARY [email protected] Above, Planters Rice Mill employees work Thursday morning to load rice from a truck onto a barge at the Port of Morgan City’s dock.…
Port stays active, officials say
BY ZACHARY FITZGERALD [email protected] The Port of Morgan City’s Government $11 million Emergency and Operations Center is shown April 15. It is located on La. 182 adjacent to the Morgan City…
Port exports continue to grow
Above, a November 2014 photo shows Planters Rice Mill of Abbeville exporting ricefrom the Port of Morgan City for the first time. Trucks transported about 150 truckloads of rice to the port in order to export 3,000 tons…
Ports’ impact keeps growing
This file photo shows an aerial view of the Port of Morgan City. A national study released this week found that coastal ports are having an increasing economic impact on…