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Article: Port of New Orleans handled billions of dollars of business.
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- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Article date:
- September 4, 2005
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Byline: Dan Chapman
Sep. 4--Gary LaGrange looked beyond the flattened shipping containers, roofless ware-houses and silt-clogged channels at the Port of New Orleans and into a future where Hurricane Katrina is but a bad memory.
"It won't be overnight," said LaGrange, the port's executive director, "but eventually we will bounce back bigger and better than ever."
Meantime, ports in Texas, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota and beyond will benefit from Louisiana's misery, as well as from the decimation of the port at nearby Gulfport, Miss. Nobody knows how long the two ports will remain closed, nor how many millions of dollars will be needed to repair ...