tion's premier coffee-handling port, with 14 warehouses containing more than 5.5 million feet of storage space and six roasting facilities within a 20 mile radius (The Port). Two of the countries most modern bulk processing operations are in New Orleans - Dupuy Storage and Forwarding Corporation, which was the first such company in the United States, and Silocaf of New Orleans, Inc., which is the world's largest bulk processing operation.
The Port of New Orleans is at the center of the world's busiest port complex - Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River (NewOrleansOnline; The Port). With its proximity to the American Midwest by way of a 14,500 mile inland waterway system, it is the port of choice for the movement of such cargoes as grain, steel, containers, and manufactured goods. The Port of New Orleans is the only deepwater port in the United States served by six class one railroads, giving port users direct, economical rail service to and from anywhere in America.
A new $100 million state-of-the-art container terminal opened recently at the Napoleon Avenue Wharf on the Mississippi River, with four dockside gantry cranes and six rubber tire gantry cranes in the marshaling yard (NewOrleansOnline; The Port). The projected capacity is 366,000 teu annually. The port handles an average of 11.4 million tons of general cargo each year, and serves 2000 vessels with its massive facilities which include 22 million square feet of cargo handling area and six million square feet of covered storage area.
Truck service is provided by local and national carriers via the Interstate Highway System, and the Clarence Henry Truckway gives truckers fast and dedicated access to the Port's Mississippi River terminals (The Port). A dockside cold storage facility is operated by New Orleans Cold Storage at a facility at the Port's Jourdan Road Terminal on the Industrial Canal/Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. The storage facility covers 10...