b'10American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comBreakbulk lumber is booming at the Port of Lake Charles BREAKBULK Louisiana port is also considering development ofQUARTERLYan offshore wind facility.By Peter Buxbaum, AJOTLakeCharles,Louisianahandling two more structural hasbeenaportofcallsteel shipments by the end of sincetheearly1800sforthe year, said Chretien. And, vesselspickingupcargoesin a first for the port, a nearby ofLouisianalumber.TheFirestoneplantloadeda localsawmillandlumberbreakbulk ship with synthetic industriessawincreasedrubber destined for customers growthaftertheendofthein Spain and Poland.CivilWar,whenrebuildingThefutureofbreakbulk efforts in the South stimulatedat Lake Charles could include the demand for lumber. Thedevelopmentofanoffshore turn of the 20th century sawwind port. The port handled adeclininglumberindustryseveralshipmentsofwind attheport,inpartbecauseblades and power components sandbars made the Calcasieubetween 2019 and 2021. So Riverimpassabletoallbutfar this year, however, there shallow-draft schooners. hasbeennoactiononthat Fast forward to 2022, andfront.Taxcreditsfornew lumberisnowthebiggest(BOOMINGcontinued onThe Port of Lake Charles takes delivery of a 154-ton-capacity Liebherr mobile harbor crane, replacing a unit growth cargo for the Port ofpage 15) destroyed by Hurricane Laura.LakeCharles.In2019,the porthandled12,000cubic meters of lumber. That grew to111,000cubicmetersin 2020 and 128,000 in 2021.Weve already exceeded 2021stotalthisyear,said TherranceChretien,the cargo and trade development director for the Port of Lake Charles.Weareprojecting to handle over 300,000 cubic metersoflumberinour facilities in 2022.l uMBers HIPMentsThesedays,thelumber handledatLakeCharlesare imports from Europe. Ultrabulk, adrybulkandbreakbulk operatorheadquarteredin Denmark, began calling on the port in 2020, delivering loads of pine and spruce dimensional lumber from Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, and Spain. Manyoftheloadsare destined for Home Depot and Lowes locations in LouisianaWhere everything is biggerand Texas, while others go to distribution centers throughout thecountry.Demandfornetworking, project cargo thelumberismostlyin theresidentialsector,saiddeals and Texas hospitalityChretien. Ultrabulk has increased the numbers of its customers bringinglumberintoLake Charlesfromfivetoeight since it began calling on theSEPTEMBER 27-29, 2022port, he added.The Port of Lake CharlesGEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER | HOUSTON, USAischallengedtohandlethe growth in breakbulk cargoes becauseHurricaneLaura destroyed half of its 900,000 squarefeetofwarehousing capacity in 2021. The port has started to replace some of that lostcapacitybyputtingup twotensionfabricbuildings totaling 100,000 square feet.We hope to have those up and running by September of this year, said Chretien.OtherbreakbulkgrowthGo Big. Register Now.areasforthePortofLake Charles have been in structuralamericas.breakbulk.comsteel and rubber shipments. A recentshipmentsaw10,000 cubicmetersofsteelgoing toIsrael.Weexpecttobe'