摘要: |
In the early 2000s, the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) made a move into the container-handling business when it converted one of its break bulk terminals to a new container terminal. In 2004, the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal opened to ships with drafts up to 45 feet. But to connect vessels in the ship channel to the berths at Napoleon and another wharf at the port's Nashville Avenue Terminal, the access channel had to be deepened from 35 feet. At the time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) maintained the Port of New Orleans access channel to just 35 feet, as authorized by the River and Harbors Act of 1938. Subsequent ship channel deepening authorizations in the 1980s never addressed the port's access channel. |