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Continente: América

País: Estados Unidos

Localización: Lake Charles

Año: 1924

Estado: Terminado

Descripción:The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is a major employer in Lake Charles. It is the eleventh largest seaport in the United States, with the Calcasieu Ship Channel providing direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, 34 miles downstream from the city docks. The ship channel intersects the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway just north of Calcasieu Lake. The Ship Channel has a project depth of 40 feet and a bottom width of 400 feet.?

The Port of Lake Charles, also known as the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District, has a variety of components including City Docks, Bulk Terminals 1, 4, and 7, L'Auberge du Lac and Sugarcane Bay, the Industrial Canal, Sempra Cameron LNG, Industrial Park East, and Westlake Terminal. The port is also the future site of the 1.2 billion dollar Syngas Plan.

The current director of the Port of Lake Charles is R. Adam McBride.

The Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (Port of Lake Charles) was created under Act 67 of the Louisiana Legislature of 1924. The District encompasses 203 square miles in Calcasieu Parish and accommodates 5 million tons of cargo annually at its public facilities; it owns and operates two marine terminals, the City Docks, Bulk Terminal No. 1, and also 2 industrial parks (Industrial Canal and Industrial Park East). The Port of Lake Charles is the 11th largest seaport in the U.S. The Ship Channel has a project depth of 40 feet and a bottom width of 400 feet. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway intersects the Ship Channel 12 miles south of the City Docks.

The Port's Industrial Canal Terminal intersects with the Ship Channel and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The Industrial Canal is 3 miles long, has a 1,400-foot by 1,400-foot turning basin at its east end, a project depth of 40 feet, and a bottom width of 400 feet. The principal cargoes moving through the Port's terminals are bagged rice, flour and other food products, forest products, aluminum, petroleum coke and other petroleum products, woodchips, barites, and rutile.

The Port Director directs the operation of the Port under the authority of a seven-member Board of Commissioners.

http://www.movetransport.com/watertransport/us-port-14-Port-of-Lake-Charles-detail.html

$2.2 Billion LNG Liquefaction Facility Announced for Port of Lake Charles

By Rob Almeida On January 18, 2013

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Maurice Brand, Managing Director and Joint Chief Executive Director of Magnolia LNG announced today a $2.2 billion project to develop a natural gas liquefaction production and export facility at The Port of Lake Charles.

Magnolia LNG is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian energy firm, LNG Limited.

The mid-scale LNG facility would be located on 90 acres at the port’s Industrial Canal, off the Calcasieu Ship Channel. Magnolia LNG would produce 4 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year, and construction would begin in 2015 pending the company’s attainment of permits and final financing. A final investment decision to move forward with the project will not happen until late 2014 however, after the company secures permits and completes financing.

Magnolia’s project would be positioned for direct access to several existing gas pipelines. Using its patented Optimized Single Mixed Refrigerant process, or OSMR™, Magnolia LNG would produce liquefied natural gas more efficiently with fewer emissions than other LNG processes. OSMR adds conventional combined heat and power technology with industrial ammonia refrigeration to enhance the performance of the liquefaction process. Magnolia LNG would distribute to domestic markets as well as countries that have free trade agreements with the U.S. The company also will explore a potential expansion to 8 million metric tons per year in the future.

“Southwest Louisiana’s attractive infrastructure and strong workforce made Lake Charles an ideal location for our planned facility,” Brand said. “We especially want to thank the Port of Lake Charles Commission for their partnership in identifying such an ideal location for this project. Whilst the company remains focused on securing the appropriate contracts, agreements and permits, we expect to commence construction of our first U.S. venture by 2015.”

Magnolia LNG will seek federal Department of Energy free trade agreement approval in 2013. The company will submit a pre-filing application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in March, before it completes the selection of project partners by June 2013. The company plans to begin hiring in early 2015, with commercial operations to begin in 2018.

“The Port of Lake Charles has been able to provide a unique combination of location, infrastructure and transportation capabilities to help bring this project to the region,” said Port Executive Director Bill Rase. “Magnolia LNG will be a significant and welcome addition to Southwest Louisiana’s energy corridor. The Port’s staff and board of commissioners look forward to doing business with the company.”

The LNG project would create 45 new permanent jobs, with an average salary of $75,000 per year, plus benefits. LED also estimates the project would result in 175 new indirect jobs. In addition, the LNG project would require an estimated 1,000 construction jobs.

http://gcaptain.com/2-2-billion-liquefaction-facility/

CHANNEL OF CHOICE

Matt Young Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Why The Port of Lake Charles Is A Key To Our Economic Boom

By Matt Young

With the eyes of America now on Southwest Louisiana — and the estimated $62 billion in development projects coming to the region — it stands to reason that special attention would be paid to the infrastructure so necessary for this economic activity — most notably the Port of Lake Charles and the Calcasieu Ship Channel.

“The Port is vital to these projects,” said Bill Rase, executive director of the Port. “Existing industries and the industries coming into the area count on the Calcasieu Ship Channel to transport their goods.”

A public body created by the Louisiana Legislature in 1924 as the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District, the deepwater Port of Lake Charles is currently listed as the country’s 13th-busiest seaport by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, based on cargo tonnage. The Calcasieu Ship Channel currently accommodates 54 million tons of cargo annually.

“Waterborne transportation remains one of the most efficient and environmentally safe methods for global trade,” said Rase.

Waterborne commerce at the Port is expected to double by 2020. That kind of increase could push the Port of Lake Charles into the Top 10 busiest ports in the nation.

“Ports are not visible to the average person who is not involved in industry,” said Channing Hayden, director of navigation and security for the Port. “Yet 90 percent of the items folks buy come in by ship, and much of our exports go out by ship. The items in our closets wouldn’t be there without the maritime industry.”

In addition to such cargoes as grain, forest products, aluminum, petroleum coke, barite and rutile, a significant portion of the nation’s energy resources — an estimated 7.5 percent — currently move up and down the Calcasieu Ship Channel each year.

The Port manages the channel, which runs inland for 36 miles and extends into the Gulf of Mexico for another 32 miles, as well as two marine terminals — the City Docks and Bulk Terminal No. 1.

The City Docks, a 200-acre general cargo facility located in Lake Charles, features an automated terminal and the Gulf Coast’s first new grain terminal in more than 40 years. The new grain terminal will have a capacity to store 60,000 tons of cargo in phase one of construction, with storage for an additional 120,000 tons planned in the second phase.

The past year has seen an unprecedented number of major project announcements, trumpeting more than $60 billion in investment coming to Southwest Louisiana. The Port of Lake Charles has played a key role in attracting that investment, whether by offering prime channel-side land for development, by assisting in negotiations and arrangements with industrial prospects, or simply by maintaining an effective transportation route — the Calcasieu Ship Channel — that’s brought industry to this area for decades.

Most of these projects — which include Sasol North America, Lake Charles Clean Energy, Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG, IFG Port Holdings, Magnolia LNG, Trunkline LNG and G2X Energy — are coming to this area specifically to make use of the Calcasieu Ship Channel.

One factor that’s contributed heavily to this influx of industrial projects is the discovery of major natural gas resources in the U.S. Much of that natural gas will make its way to Southwest Louisiana to be liquefied and exported via the Calcasieu Ship Channel.

http://www.bestofswla.com/2014/05/06/channel-choice/

The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is a major employer in Lake Charles. It is the eleventh largest seaport in the United States (by tonnage), with the Calcasieu Ship Channel providing direct access to the Gulf of Mexico, 34 miles downstream from the city docks. The ship channel intersects the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway just north of Calcasieu Lake. The Ship Channel has a project depth of 40 feet and a bottom width of 400 feet.

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