Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has announced that Lineage Logistics will expand its Jourdan Road cold-storage facility in New Orleans East by more than 13,000m².
One of two major Lineage facilities at Port NOLA, the cold-storage complex at Jourdan Road along the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal will grow from 14,865m² to 28,242m² in an investment of US$42 million by the Michigan-based warehousing and logistics company (US$30 million), the State of Louisiana (US$10 million) and the Port of New Orleans (US$2 million).
[s2If is_user_logged_in()]Lineage’s expansion project, which will generate an estimated 150 construction jobs, is projected to be complete in the second quarter of 2022, and the company will begin hiring staff in early 2022.
“The value-added exports of Lineage Logistics will continue to strengthen Louisiana’s US$1.6 billion poultry industry, including nearly 300 commercial broiler producers throughout 11 parishes,” said Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Shipments from the existing and expanding cold-storage facilities of Lineage Logistics draw upon multiple Louisiana poultry producers, including hatcheries, feed mills, broiler complexes and processing plants, according to a statement.
“This expansion is critical, due to increasing worldwide demand for US poultry, primarily from Angola, Cuba, Hong Kong, Mexico and Taiwan,” noted Mike McClendon, Lineage’s president of international operations and executive vice president of network optimisation, who added, “Lineage and Port NOLA have worked closely on this project to accommodate growing volumes and new lines of export agriculture commodities, and a growing trade of fresh produce imports.”
Lineage represents the largest network of temperature-controlled warehouses globally, with more than 340 facilities offering over 60 million cubic metres of capacity and spanning 15 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America. In New Orleans, the company operates two cold-storage and blast-freeze facilities that have the capacity to blast-freeze 2.8 million pounds of product to zero degrees in 24 hours.
In 2020, Lineage acquired New Orleans Cold Storage as part of its acquisition of Emergent Cold. The port and New Orleans Cold Storage opened a new 13,000m², blast-freeze facility in 2012 at the Henry Clay Avenue Wharf upriver, adding 1.25 million pounds of daily blast-freeze capacity and 38 million pounds of storage capacity for frozen goods. That capacity is in addition to the Jourdan Road site.
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