L to R: Eric Gilmore,Red River Waterway Commission, Jeff Jeffcoat, Nucor (holding Mariner’s Certificate) as well as Ted Knight, Director of Operations, Port of Caddo-Bossie
The Port of Caddo-Bossier in Shreveport, La., noted completion of January with a turning point. Port staff members unloaded the 100th barge lugging steel coils for Vulcraft-Texas a department of Nucor.
The barges lugging steel coils, started to get here from Nucor’s Blytheville, Arkansas center in May 2017. The steel coils are unloaded at the Port of Caddo-Bossier as well as moved to vehicles that transfer them to the business’s Grapeland, Texas plant, which is southern of Tyler.
“The relationship between the Port of Caddo-Bossier and Nucor shows we are a viable option for companies that don’t need brick and mortar facilities,” statedExecutive Port Director Eric England “Nucor has significantly reduced transportation costs by utilizing barges and storing the coils at the Port, until they are transferred to Grapeland.”
To note the celebration, a lunch was held at the Regional Commerce Center for port drivers as well as participants of the Nucor group. Mariners’ Certificates were distributed to Port as well as Vulcraft-Texas Nucor participants.
The 2,600 acre Port of Caddo-Bossier lies ahead of navigating on the Red River Waterway in northwestLouisiana An inland multi-modal transport as well as warehouse, the port functions together with the port system of Louisiana to connect consumers throughout the Ark-La-Tex area to residential as well as global markets through the Mississippi River as well as the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
