A Louisiana company wants to build a 36-silo grain terminal on the west bank of St. John the Baptist Parish, bringing more jobs to the Mississippi River corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, reports NOLA.com.
Greenfield Louisiana LLC, Baton Rouge, says the 248-acre export terminal would employ 60 people in barge, dock, rail, truck, storage, processing and elevator operations for wheat, corn and soybeans.
In May, the Port of South Louisiana applied for a $25 million federal grant to help it build a dock for Greenfield Louisiana's terminal. If approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the port would lease the dock to Greenfield.
As the country's largest grain port, the Port of South Louisiana currently handles more than half of the U.S. grain exports annually.
Greenfield Louisiana is an export grain elevator that expects to move more than 11 million tonnes of agriculture products, primarily corn, wheat, and soybeans with some throughput from other locally grown specialty crops, to the export market.