Ouachita Terminals moves bulk, containers, and project cargo through a fully intermodal river port at Mile 164 on the Ouachita River, where barge, rail, and truck meet at a single facility. It is the only full container handling operation within 200 miles, which for a shipper in northeast Louisiana is less a choice to weigh than a fact to use.
For industrial operations that have been trucking everything because they did not know a full-service option sat nearby, the terminal turns the river into the long haul and the road into the last mile. Operational since 2004, it was built for the paper mills, chemical plants, and manufacturers of the region, not for grain season.
The infrastructure runs deep: a nine-foot draft and 150-foot channel, more than 9,000 feet of heavy rail with KCS main-line access and a double-track unit-train loop, and a 275-ton Manitowoc crane, roughly 48 hours from the Port of New Orleans by barge and two days from most US markets by truck.
The only full container operation within 200 miles, by barge, rail, and truck.
Forest products, chemicals, aggregates, and more, transferred across all three modes.
Oversized and heavy-lift industrial cargo handled at the barge dock.
Barge, rail, and truck coordinated by a single operator instead of three relationships.
