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Article: Port chief predicts return of shippers to New Orleans.(Gary LaGrange)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 6, 2005
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Byline: Mike Hughlett
NEW ORLEANS _ Hundreds of four-ton shipping containers _ normally stacked in neat columns _ are spilled everywhere at a key port terminal here. One wharf-side warehouse is now a pile of charred metal. And 5 million pounds of formerly frozen chicken is underwater in a refrigerated cargo terminal that flooded.
Yet eight days after Hurricane Katrina's rampage, Gary LaGrange, president of the Port of New Orleans, is talking about the return of the ships so important to this area's economy.
While his port remains essentially closed, he expects commercial ships to begin calling next week. And as he toured his battered wharves ...