Driving down the main highway linking lower Plaquemines with suburban New Orleans, a fisherman
told me,“This whole area was 20 feet under during Katrina.”.
Sanders said the new multimodal
gateway terminal being built at the Port of Plaquemines would be capable of servicing the largest ocean carriers(20,000+ TEU)
and could accommodate eight unit trains right up to the dock, in contrast to other large ports where one unit train would have to be cut three times to get through the yard.