Thursday, November 12, 2015

New Orleans Ready to Expand

Last year, New Orleans handled more than a million cruise passengers. Buoyed by that and cruise lines now increasing capacity at the Crescent City, the Port of New Orleans is making plans to expand their cruise capacity.

In his State of the Port speech earlier this week, port president Gary LaGrange said a third cruise terminal will be completed at Poland Avenue by the end of 2017.

The complete story appeared in the November 12 edition of Cruise News Daily.