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LOUISIANA TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
LAKE PROVIDENCE PORT COMMISSION LOCATION The Port of Lake Providence is located on the Mississippi River at mile 484
A.H.P. in the northeast corner of Louisiana in East Carroll Parish TERMINAL The Port is a shallow draft port with a Corps of Engineers maintained channel depth of 9 feet situated on 284 acres with 25 acres of flood free hydraulic fill. There are four berths:
WATER & LAND ACCESS WATER A channel 8,200 feet long, 150 feet wide and maintained by the COE at 9 feet depth with a 400 X 800 feet turning radius provides access to the river. In the last seven years the channel depth has been less than 12 feet for 44 days in September and October of 1991. RAIL The Port has a total of 6,600 feet of track on 4 tracks with the longest continuous track of 4,350 feet. Delta Southern Railway Company of Tallulah provides rail service. HIGHWAY Access to U.S. 65, a major north-south highway, is provided by a 1/3 mile blacktop port road. I-20 is located 30 miles south at Tallulah, LA. LA-2 lies 8.5 miles north of the port providing a direct east-west connection to Bastrop, 50 miles to the west. LA-134 lies 5 miles west of the port and provides access to Monroe via I-20, 70 miles to the southwest. Greenville, MS, is 50 miles to the north and Vicksburg, MS, is 50 miles to the south. Distances to major regional cities are:
VESSELS General cargo service is provided by open and covered hopper barges typically 35 X 195 feet with 9 feet draft and carrying 1,500 tons. Liquid fertilizer barges are usually 50 X 290 feet with 9 feet draft and carrying 3,000 tons. Approximately 234 barges are served in an average year. DOCKING The water depth is normally 12 feet plus, with 44 days in the last seven years having less than 12 feet draft in September and October, 1991. Cargo service is provided by the following transfer units:
The general cargo dock and ramp have a 75 ton crawler crane with a 4 cubic yard clamshell bucket for loading and unloading. The dock has a conveyor belt, 36" X 690 feet, with radial stacker connection to a 72,000 square feet concrete storage pad. Rail tracks extend to the end of the dock for direct river to rail service. In addition an 8" liquid fertilizer pipeline extends to the end of the dock and ramp. Eight to ten hours are needed to unload a barge at the dock or ramp. It takes approximately 5 minutes to load a truck from the storage pad and 15-20 minutes to load a rail car. Annual river throughput averages 350,000 tons with total annual throughput of 530,000 tons. STORAGE YARD/WAREHOUSES Adjacent to the dock, connected by a radial stacker, is a 72,000 square feet concrete storage pad. Three acres of flood free auxiliary area are nearby. Three acres of flood prone land lies adjacent to the fertilizer warehouse and is used to store lime and rock. Another 3 acres of flood prone land lies 1/4 mile south of the dock and is used to store rock. Terral RiverService operates a 45,000 sf segmented warehouse for fertilizer storage. The port owns the following general cargo warehouses:
The two 20,000 sf warehouses have aprons to the rail tracks with a total of 4 truck bays. The 4,800 sf warehouse has 3 truck bays and is adjacent to the tracks. The port also has a 21,000 sf Muskogee warehouse with hydraulic truck dumper for cottonseed storage with rail and truck access. LAND, EGRESS, TERMINAL EXPANSION & IMPEDIMENTS Construction will begin soon on a new 21,000 sf Muskogee warehouse with expected completion August 31, 1996, for additional cottonseed storage. A Bulk Fertilizer and Landfill project for Terral RiverService is still in the design phase with expected completion date of summer, 1997. There is a ring levee for 17 acres ready for hydraulic fill whenever the COE dredges the harbor. The date for this fill is uncertain. The primary impediment to future growth of the port is the availability of flood free land. Past and current inquiries suggest that any flood free land would be quickly utilized. FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact: Wyly Gilfoil Port Director (318) 559-2365 Tom Gattle President Terral RiverService (318) 559-1500 |
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