NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Port of New Orleans says it has a new shipping container high mark, moving the equivalent of more than 591,000 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) containers in 2018.
The port’s previous record was nearly 525,500 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, set in 2015.
A port news release says last year’s total was more than 12 percent above 2017’s.
The port said Thursday that, with the Port of Greater Baton Rouge and operator Seacor AMH, it is growing the nation’s largest container-on-barge service. It says that service moved nearly 27,000 TEUs by barge in 2018, up 58 percent from 2017.
The service moves containers from Memphis, Tennessee, to Baton Rouge, where they’re loaded with plastic resins. They are then shipped to New Orleans for global export.
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