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Critical infrastructure: Louisiana’s ports are essential to national supply chains and regional economic stability.
Exposure to risk: Ports face increasing threats from severe weather, flooding, sea level rise, and other disruptions.
System-wide vulnerability: Impacts to power, transportation, and operations can create cascading effects across the port network.
Proactive planning: Identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening infrastructure is key to minimizing disruptions.
Adaptive solutions: Investments in hardening, redundancy, and smarter design improve the ability to withstand and recover from events.
Operational continuity: Resiliency strategies help maintain cargo movement and economic activity during and after disruptions.
Future readiness: Building more resilient ports supports long-term reliability, protects communities, and ensures sustained competitiveness.
Operations and Critical Functions
Operations and Critical Functions
Operations and critical functions include the core activities that maintain port throughput and service continuity
These involve cargo handling, vessel operations, storage, and intermodal coordination across terminals
They represent essential functions required to sustain normal and disrupted port operations
Electrical Infrastructure
Electrical Infrastructure
Electrical infrastructure and dependencies include the power systems supporting terminals, buildings, and equipment
This covers grid connections, substations, distribution systems, and backup power assets
Port operations are increasingly dependent on reliable and sufficient electrical supply
Vunerabilities and Impacts
Vunerabilities and Impacts
Vulnerabilities and impacts from disruptions arise from reliance on centralized power and interconnected logistics systems
Outages, extreme weather, or equipment failures can reduce throughput, cause delays, or halt operations
These disruptions can affect both port performance and broader supply chain stability
Enhancement Opportunities
Enhancement Opportunities
Enhancement opportunities focus on improving resilience through redundancy and system flexibility
Approaches include microgrids, backup generation, electrification with storage, and load management strategies
These measures improve continuity and reduce exposure to external disruptions
The Louisiana Port Atlas was developed to combine and compare information on the 32 active ports in the State of Louisiana, including infrastructure, transportation connections, cargo, and available utility and energy records. It also includes weather observations and forecasts, solar and wind resource comparisons, utility reliability statistics, and wholesale electricity prices. Source references and reporting dates are provided throughout. Vessel tracking is still under development, and some specific data for each port due to limited public availability.
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