summer 2010

Deepwaterport of greater baton rouge

AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR New Companies, Expansions

International Cargo Transport Company, Mammoet, Locates at the Port Westway Terminal Co. Expands Significantly Infrastructure Improvements Continue Jay Hardman, P.E. PORT COMMISSION Mr. Randy Brian Executive Director Farm Bureau Port of Greater Baton Rouge Mr. Alvin Dragg Ascension Parish SUMMER 2010 Mr. Timothy Hardy East Baton Rouge Parish Unlike other areas of the country, the public Port Ms. Brenda Hurst of Greater Baton Rouge experienced significant West Baton Rouge Parish expansion in 2009 and the first half of 2010. Mr. Larry Johnson West Baton Rouge Parish The global organization, Mammoet, based in Mr. Jerald Juneau Schiedam, The Netherlands, and specializing in the East Baton Rouge Parish transport and placing of heavy cargoes, located at the Mr. Raymond Loup port in March, 2009. Since that time, Mammoet has expanded its original operation West Baton Rouge Parish here with additional infrastructure and personnel. Dr. Angela Machen East Baton Rouge Parish In May 2009, Westway Terminal Company broke ground on a $3.8 million Mr. Roy Pickren, Jr. expansion at its current port facility. The project included construction of four East Baton Rouge Parish 1-million-gallon bulk liquid storage tanks. A second phase of that expansion, Mr. Randy Poche totaling an additional 1.47 million gallons of liquid storage tanks and estimated East Baton Rouge Parish at $2.1 million, was later announced by Westway. With the completion of both Mr. Corey Sarullo projects, Westway has increased its storage capacity at the port by more than one- Iberville Parish third, to 22 million gallons. Mr. Clint Seneca Iberville Parish The recent announcement by Port Bio Entergy to locate a wood pellet Mr. Blaine Sheets manufacturing plant at the port is a good example of many regional entities Ascension Parish coming together to encourage economic development. This “green industry” will Mr. John Tilton create jobs, increase shipping and give an economic boost to our state’s forest Farm Bureau products industry. PORT STAFF Mammoet USA South, Inc., part of the is local, and we use local subcontractors In 2005, the company was asked to lend My thanks to the port’s Board of Commissioners for their guidance and support worldwide organization of Mammoet, for barging, towing, trucking, welding, and their transport and lifting expertise to in helping to keep the public Port of Greater Baton Rouge as a driving economic Jay G. Hardman, P.E. specializes in engineered heavy transport other services.” the task of replacing sections of the New Executive Director engine and significant asset to this region. and heavy lifting. In 2009 Mammoet USA Orleans Twin Span Bridge which was [email protected] chose the Port of Greater Baton Rouge Shortly after locating at the port, Mammoet heavily damaged during Hurricane Katrina. completed a heavy lift project that included Greg Johnson to open its newest branch because of the Mammoet USA crews loaded modular the midstream transfer of a 700-ton Director of Business Development port’s strategic location and intermodal transporters onto barges that could lift the pressure vessel and three smaller vessels [email protected] transportation options, all key factors in individual sections and position them into In Memoriam to a barge on the Mississippi River. In less John Polansky, Jr., P.E. the future expansion of the company’s place. The sections were positioned in a Karam John Thomas (Mr. K) southern operations. than 48 hours, the vessels were transferred matter of just a few months. Director of Engineering and Security through the locks of the U.S. Gulf [email protected] In the fall of 2009, the Port of Greater Baton Rouge lost “To attract a tenant like this is a compliment Intracoastal Waterway and into the port’s Mammoet was hired to lift and place a good friend and professional partner, Karam John Karen K. St. Cyr to our infrastructure,” said Jay Hardman, Inland Rivers Marine Terminal. The four completed sections of the new Huey P. Thomas, known to all of us at the port as “Mr. K”. Director of Public Relations the port’s executive director. “It brings jobs vessels were later transported to Norco, Long bridge in New Orleans. This method, [email protected] and it also brings with it new opportunities Louisiana for a refinery expansion. as opposed to conventional methods, Lowe to the area, especially for the local said, is more cost effective and safe since He graduated from LSU in 1950 and was a registered Brad Stueber petrochemical sector.” Mammoet used a 24-axle, self-propelled the bridge sections are built on the ground. civil engineer in the State of Louisiana. In 1969, he Director of Finance and Administration modular transporters (SPMT) to roll the Since starting operations at the port in founded Barnard & Thomas Engineering. Inc. Most [email protected] Mammoet is also creating work for other 700-ton vessel off the barge. SPMTs, which recently, Mr. K was a much valued and appreciated June of 2009, the company has expanded T. Barry Wilkinson companies in the surrounding area by were custom designed and engineered by its facility several times and added executive with Pyburn & Odom, MCA. He had been using their services. “We want to make this Mammoet, are hydraulic transporters that affiliated with the Port of Greater Baton Rouge since its Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs additional personnel. [email protected] operation as local as possible,” said Doug eliminate the need for cranes during a inception in 1954 as a designer and project engineer. Lowe, Mammoet’s Baton Rouge branch roll-off operation. For more information on Mammoet, manager. “Our entire management team visit the corporate website at When Mr. K wasn’t playing his ukulele for family www.mammoet.com. and friends or local nursing homes, he was actively CONTACT US: participating in Our Lady of Mercy Church and various organizations THE PORT OF within the Baton Rouge community. He was a member of the GREATER BATON ROUGE Representatives cutting the ribbon at the official grand opening of Louisiana Engineering Society, the Knights of Columbus, The Knight POST OFFICE BOX 380 Grand Cross of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, and the Sierra Club PORT ALLEN, LA 70767-0380 Mammoet USA South, Inc. at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge included of Baton Rouge. 2425 ERNEST WILSON DRIVE (left to right): Riley Berthelot, president West Baton Rouge Parish; PORT ALLEN, LA 70767 For more than 50 years, he was involved with the planning, Doug Lowe, Mammoet USA branch manager; Jay Hardman, port building, expansion and improvement of the Port of Greater Baton PHONE 225-342-1660 Rouge and through his experience contributed greatly to the success FAX 225-342-1666 executive director; Mayor Derek Lewis, City of Port Allen, LA; and Greg of this port. He inspired many through his actions and will be Johnson, port business development director. missed by everyone who knew him. www.portgbr.com Groundbreaking Event Launches Westway Westway Group, Inc. Expansion Project Successfully Completes Bulk Liquid Storage Expansion at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. Capacity at the terminal facility

Officials from the Westway Group, Louisiana now totals 22 million gallons. Economic Development, West Baton Rouge Parish and the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. Pictured (left to right): Terry Fleming, Westway Terminal Co. facility manager; Don Pierson, assistant secretary of Louisiana Economic Development; State Representative Major Thibaut; Peter Harding, Westway Group chief executive officer; Wayne Driggers, Westway Group chief operating officer; Scott MacKenzie, West way Terminal Co. president; Tom Masilla, Westway Group chief financial officer; President of West Baton Rouge Parish Riley Berthelot Jr; West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Mike Cazes; of Port Allen Mayor Derek Lewis; and Jay Hardman, executive director, Port of Greater Baton Rouge.

The Westway Liquid Bulk Storage Terminal is located at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge immediately south of the I-10 bridge. With the completion of phase two of the expansion project, the terminal’s capacity was increased by one-third. Over 1,000 components imported through In August 2009 the Westway Group held a working closely with the state to grow the port for Stupp’s new spiral weld mill. groundbreaking at the port to announce a our business and create more jobs here.” $3.8 million expansion of its existing port Westway’s terminal at the Port of Greater (left to right) State Representative Major Thibaut; facility. The project included construction of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River is Last summer John Stupp, President of more than double its workforce, retaining four 1-million-gallon bulk storage tanks for a strategic U.S. Gulf South location. The Don Pierson, assistant secretary Louisiana Economic Development; Sheriff Mike Cazes and Mayor Derek Lewis. Stupp Bros. Inc. and President and Chief 193 jobs and creating at least 205 new jobs. bulk liquid storage. facility has excellent intermodal capabilities Operating Officer of Stupp Corp. Ed Scram Capital investment for this project was with access to ocean-going vessels, barge, joined with Governor Bobby Jindal to approximately $80 million. A second phase of that expansion, rail, and truck. The company’s international officially open a new spiral weld mill at the estimated at an additional $2.1 million, was headquarters is located in New Orleans, LA. Stupp Bros. Inc, founded in St. Louis, Mo., company’s north Baton Rouge facility. For announced by Westway shortly thereafter. in 1856, is the privately held parent company Engineering for the project was provided by several months prior to that special event, Phase 2 included an additional 1.47 million of Stupp Corp. Established in Baton Rouge Neel-Schaffer Engineering of Baton Rouge, the components used to construct the mill, gallons of liquid storage capacity along in 1952, Stupp is a leading North American with supporting infrastructure. The recent LA. Tank foundations were constructed by imported from Germany, India, Romania and manufacturer of custom line pipe for the completion of the phase 2 expansion brings Beard Construction Company of Port Allen, Indonesia, entered the Port of Greater Baton transport of oil and natural gas. With the the Westway Group’s capacity at the Port of LA. Contractors for the expansion include Rouge and were unloaded and transported most modern ERW pipe-manufacturing Greater Baton Rouge to 22 million gallons. Performance Contractors of Baton Rouge, successfully to the Stupp site. Over 1,000 facility in North America, Stupp Corp. is LA, who provided piping and mechanical component parts of the mill arrived in well located to provide pipe for both on Scott MacKenzie, President of Westway work for the project, and Pasadena Tanks (front row, left to right): Karen St.Cyr of the varying sizes totaling 159 crates weighing and offshore pipe line transmission projects Terminal Company LLC stated, “The Corporation of Houston, TX for tank Port; Port Commissioner Corey Sarullo, Port 1,647.80 metric tons. Ports America was the and export pipe from the Port of Greater completion of this $5.9 million project at our erection within the industry. Commissioner Jerald Juneau; and Jay Hardman. stevedore for the project, which included Baton Rouge. Port Allen facility further expands Westway’s Back Row: Barry Brewer, City of Port Allen, and three breakbulk vessels. solid logistical infrastructure with deepwater Westway Group, Inc. (“Westway”) is a Port Commissioner John Tilton. According to Jay Hardman, port executive access for ocean going vessels as well as rail leading provider of bulk liquid storage and The new spiral weld mill was commissioned director, “Stupp Corporation in Baton Rouge and truck capabilities.” related value-added services and a leading in June 2009. Stupp Corp. invested has been a long-standing customer of this manufacturer and distributor of liquid approximately $80 million to construct the At the groundbreaking event last year, port, and we look forward to sustaining and animal feed supplements. Westway operates new facility on 12 acres of land adjacent to Peter Harding, CEO of the Westway Group, expanding this successful partnership in an extensive global network of 25 operating the manufacturing site in East Baton Rouge commented to those attending, “We are an the future.” facilities providing approximately 354 Parish that the company has called home international company with operations all million gallons of total bulk liquid storage since 1969. The project enabled Stupp to over North America, Northern Europe, and shell capacity and 37 facilities producing Asia. But we have chosen to headquarter approximately 1.6 million tons of liquid feed our business in the great state of Louisiana supplements annually. With the addition of this mill, Stupp has the ability to produce custom steel because Louisiana is a pro-business state where we can find excellent employees Learn more about Westway at API-5L line pipe from 10¾” O.D. through 60” O.D. This production capability and where we can obtain services at very www.westway.com Westway Group Chief Operating Officer Wayne on a single campus is unique in the energy industry in North America. competitive prices. We look forward to Driggers, and Peter Harding, Westway Group chief executive officer. Around Schiedam, The Netherlands the Port The Port of Greater Baton Rouge General AROUND THE GL BE Cargo Docks was the site for emergency response training for Marine Tactical Operator Training for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. Training Baton Rouge, Louisiana included waterside boarding techniques, New Orleans, Louisiana communications and classroom training.

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IN MEMORIUM: Commissioner Kirt Bennett, his wife Denise and their children, Benjamin (age 7), Christiana (age 9) and The 2009 Baton Rouge Area Leadership Class toured the port during its session on economic John (age 10) at the Baton Rouge Traffic and development. Leadership Baton Rouge is a program of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Transportation Club 12th Annual Crawfish Commerce. Founded in 1985, the program has graduated over 700 area men and women to Boil hosted on the port docks. Mr. Bennett prepare a diverse group of professionals for leadership positions in the community. Many of Mr. Alvin “Bully” Dragg, representing Port commissioner Jerald Juneau and experienced a stroke and passed away the graduates now serve in leadership positions on boards and commissions and hold both Ascension Parish on the board of port Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, several months after this photo was taken, state and local public offices. commissioners, receives recognition and Presidential Designee, U.S. Corps of much to the regret of his many friends at the appreciation for his service as the 2009 Engineers, Vickburg, MS, and Jay Hardman, port and in the community. President of the Port Commission from Jay pictured on the General Cargo Docks during Hardman, port executive director. Mr. Dragg the Mississippi River Commission’s Annual was appointed to the board in 1984 and has High Water Inspection Tour last year. The been elected president four times as follows: event was hosted by the Port and the Gulf 10/19/88 – 10/31/89; 11/19/98 – 10/27/99; Intracoastal Canal Association. In 2009, the 10/26/06 – 10/25/07; 11/20/08 – 10/22/09. Mississippi River at the Baton Rouge gauge reached its highest level on June 1, 2009 at 40.75 ft. Port Partners

Dan Claitor An April 2010 press conference attended by Louisiana State Senator Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the Port According In a special election to fill the unexpired term of Bill Cassidy after he of Greater Baton Rouge announced that to Point Bio Point Bio Energy, LLC plans to locate a new was elected to Congress, Dan Claitor was elected State Senator, District Energy officials, manufacturing facility on port property to 16, on April 4, 2009 with nearly 66 percent of the total votes cast. In his the deepwater Port of manufacture wood pellets for generating first session, he brought legislation that strengthens a teacher’s ability to Greater Baton Rouge was selected electricity. The new facility will create up to maintain control in the classroom with appropriate discipline. due to a number of strategic advantages, 100 new direct jobs with an annual payroll including being located within a sustainable over $6 million, add 273 new indirect jobs, He graduated from Lee High School in Baton Rouge, from LSU with a B.S. forest management area with an ample Wood pellets have both industrial and residential and will represent more than $100 million in applications as fuel and, unlike fossil fuels, are degree in Finance, and from Loyola Law School in New Orleans. Dan Claitor amount of suitable timber acreage. This capital investment. considered carbon-neutral because wood releases tried his first jury trail, the defense of a homicide case, as a senior in law distinction provides Point Bio Energy an the same amount of carbon whether it’s burned or school. He has spent a significant part of his time in a courtroom ever since The plant is scheduled to begin construction opportunity to transport significant wood decays on its own. this year according to Point Bio Energy, LLC supplies to its facility at a much lower including as a prosecutor in the New Orleans District Attorney’s office CEO Bill New and will begin delivering price point than its competitors. Another under Harry Connick, Sr. product in the fourth quarter of 2011. The key element of the project was deepwater In addition to practicing as an attorney, he has been involved in his family majority of the wood pellets will be exported access to accommodate Panamax size to Europe, which will result in increased vessels capable of handling quantities of business, Claitor’s Law Books and Publishing, in many capacities including shipping activity at the port. 40,000 metric tons for export per shipment. laborer, editor, author and general counsel. He and his wife, Sharmaine, have two sons, Sam and James. The estimated 450,000 metric tons of wood PBE expects to export up to ten vessels pellets produced annually from the plant per year or 400,000 metric tons of wood will also be an economic boon to Louisiana’s pellets during 2012 and each year thereafter. forestry industry, which has been hit hard The project will require approximately Over 130 guests attended the announcement of Point Bio Energy’s plans to operate a wood pellet 18.8 acres of land at the port. One area recently due to the national decline in manufacturing plant at the Port. Louisiana Governor new housing construction and in the pulp will be used for staging and chipping Bobby Jindal was the keynote speaker. and paper industry. Louisiana Economic timber and another where the pellets will Development officials estimate that the be manufactured and then conveyed via project will also generate $12.9 million in conveyors to a transit shed on the port’s Rob Marionneaux new state tax revenue and $9.6 million in general cargo docks. Transit Shed No. 1, new local tax revenue over the next 10 years. consisting of 155,000 square feet, will serve Louisiana State Senator Many different types of workers, such as as the marshalling or storage facility to At the age of 27, Rob Marionneau was elected to the Louisiana House loggers, truck drivers, stevedores, tug boat accommodate shipload quantities of pellets of Representatives, representing the 18th district comprised of parts crews, steamship agents, and others within for export, traveling down the Mississippi the maritime community will benefit from River and then on to European markets. of Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana this project, said Point Bio Energy officials. Parishes. While in the House, he served on the Criminal Justice, Jay Hardman, Executive Director of the Riley Berthelot, Parish President of West Baton Transportation and Agricultural committees. The wood pellet industry has experienced port, stated that, “This is one of the biggest Rouge, greets Governor Jindal and William New, significant growth recently due to a push by projects for the port in recent years, and Chief Executive Officer of Point Bio Energy. Also After serving one term, he ran for State Senator and was elected in 2000. pictured are Senator Rob Marionneaux, Senate the first green industry to locate within European countries to reduce greenhouse District 17 and Representative Major Thibaut, House In the Louisiana Senate, he serves on Joint Capitol Outlay and Agriculture gas emissions. According to Point Bio our facilities. We like the fact that it is District 18. committees. He has been an outspoken voice for those unable to speak for Energy, the lumber-based fuel is a more an industry using sustainable renewable themselves and has never been afraid to be the lone vote on issues he feels environmentally friendly alternative to resources.” Hardman pointed out that are important. He also serves as a board member on the Mental Health coal and has both industrial and residential the recruitment of Point Bio Energy was a applications. Unlike fossil fuels, wood pellets result of regional entities coming together Board of Louisiana. are considered carbon-neutral because wood for a common purpose. ”The port received Senator Marionneaux graduated from Catholic High Pointe Coupee, releases the same amount of carbon whether support and assistance from the Baton attended Louisiana State University, and graduated from Southern it’s burned or decays on its own. Demand for Rouge Area Chamber and the Baton Rouge wood pellets has increased from 6.9 million Legislative Delegation,” said Hardman, University Law Center. He and his wife Keely live in Livonia and have tons to 8.9 million tons and is expected to “as well as Port Commissioners, West one son, Robert III. grow by 25-30 percent in the near future. The Baton Rouge officials and the West Baton William New, Chief Executive Officer of Point Bio Point Bio Energy plant will purchase timber Rouge Chamber.” Energy; Adam Knapp, President and CEO of the from south Louisiana, grind it into sawdust For more information on Point Bio Baton Rouge Area Chamber; Governor Bobby Jindal, at the port, and press it into small pellets Energy, LLC visit www.pbioen.com and Jay Hardman, Port Executive Director, discuss with the same type of machinery used to the wood pellet manufacturing facility and its make dry dog food. value to the port and the Louisiana timber and logging industries. Transit Sheds at U.S. Corps of Engineers Maritime Security Operations Center the General Cargo Port Allen Locks “dewatered” Command center at the port will serve as a central Docks Undergo to undergo repairs. location for maritime emergency response. The Port Allen Locks were bone dry after work on the locks. The group replaced Extensive being dewatered and shut down to river the Mississippi River end of the lock traffic while the locks underwent major gates, repaired expansion joints, changed Rehabilitation repairs during the months of August and out electrical and control systems and September 2009. The Port Allen Locks upgraded or refurbished the hydrologic were built in 1961 and were last dewatered power units. The construction and All new roofing and siding for the port’s transit in 1970. The locks are located at the maintenance crews worked 24 hours a day sheds on the General Cargo Docks were included northern-most point on the Mississippi and there were 100 additional workers in much-needed rehabilitation projects at the port. River where barge traffic can pass through at the locks for the project. Cost of the Some of the damage to the transit sheds was a the locks into the U.S. Intracoastal maintenance project was $12 million. result of Hurricane Gustav, but the majority of the Waterway System. By doing so, the buildings were constructed in the 1950s and were distance for inbound and outbound barge The Port Allen Locks are one of the top due for repairs. The project was funded through traffic via Morgan City, Louisiana and five busiest locks in the U.S. Army Corp the Louisiana Department of Transportation Port Houston, Texas is shortened considerably. of Engineers New Orleans District. On Priority Program at a cost of $1,275,470. average annually, the Port Allen Locks During the 58-day closure of the locks for move 25 million tons of cargo, 32,000 J. Reed Constructors of Baton Rouge was repairs, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ vessels a year go through the lock, and awarded the contract, and the project created 20 Bucktown, Illinois Construction Group there are 6,000 lock operations. The locks construction jobs. completed the majority of maintenance operate 24 hours a day and never close.

Brad Blanchard, lockmaster for the Port Allen Locks, in front of the repairs to the river end of the lock gates and inside one of the flood tunnels. Blanchard could not wait for the dewatering Initial construction began this spring on All of the port assessments from maritime Total cost of the project is estimated at process to be completed before entering the north and south tunnels that use gravity to flood the Maritime Security Operations Center community and river pilots identified a need $3,093,000. Funding sources included $1.3 Mississippi River water into the locks. After nine years at the Bayou Sorrel Locks on the Port (MSOC) located next to port headquarters in for improved communications and a central million for Port Security Grant Round 6 Port Allen. This regional facility will improve command center for emergency response from the U.S. Department of Homeland Allen Route, the Corps of Engineers transferred Blanchard to the Port Allen Locks, where he has and assist multiple agencies responding to from a multitude of agencies from the Security; $2 million 2006 State Capital been working for 14 years. During the repair operations, he was able to enter the two 14-foot- any maritime emergency. landside or maritime side. It was determined Outlay appropriation, and $100,000 from the square cement tunnels that flood the 1,200-by 84-foot lock chamber for the first time. that there was a need for a central location Louisiana Department of Transportation Port The Command Center will be elevated and in the port region where all of the agencies Security Consortium. will have the capability to operate during that respond to incidents and disasters could catastrophic flooding or other natural or come together to address the incident at According to Jay Hardman, port executive man-made disasters. The design of the hand. Examples of the interagency groups director, “The port took a regional approach exterior reflects the marine architecture of that respond to such emergencies include to this project. Partnering with West Baton navel vessels. The third floor will be used local, state and federal law enforcement; Rouge Parish government and working with as a multi-purpose conference room that U.S. Attorney; U.S. Corps of Engineers; U.S. our regional Port Security Council, along with can immediately become a control center Coast Guard; U.S. Customs and Immigration our federal and state partnerships, helped in the event of an emergency. This facility Services; FEMA; NOAA and Wildlife and to not duplicate services and produce cost is designed to function continuously as a Fisheries. effective workable solutions, which will Command Center during either landside improve efficiency and response. This project or maritime emergencies and will house The project is being designed by Crump and is a win-win for everyone involved. Our local, state and federal officials during an Wilson Architects, and Pyburn and Odom congressional, state legislative delegation and emergency. Structurally, the building will be MCA, the port’s consulting engineers. Block port commissioners have been supportive designed to withstand and resist high wind Construction of Baton Rouge is the general and have assisted the port and the parish in and flooding. contractor for the construction of the new securing the funding.” facility. All firms for the project are located in Baton Rouge. All Ahead Full

Boat Launches to be Constructed NOAA Sensor in Port’s Jurisdiction Ship captains can now get free real- The security and vulnerability of Baton time information on water and weather Rouge’s port assets and the federal conditions for the lower Mississippi government’s willingness to assist with River from a new NOAA ocean observing security enhancement projects are well system that makes piloting a ship safer documented. Through Federal Department and more efficient. The NOAA Physical of Homeland Security grants, 10 boat Oceanographic Real-Time System launches will be constructed in the port’s (PORTS®) on the lower Mississippi jurisdictional area which includes the River provides observations of tides, parishes of Ascension, East Baton Rouge, currents, water and air temperature, West Baton Rouge, and Iberville. barometric pressure, winds and bridge clearance. Collected from a NOAA variety One of the first launch facilities to of sensors, including those installed on be constructed will be in the City of the General Cargo Docks at the Port of Donaldsonville. The boat launch will Greater Baton Rouge, the data is enhance the community’s existing available free on the Internet: riverfront development and will be http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports.html available for use during a maritime and by phone: 888-817-7767 (toll-free). emergency. GeoEngineers, Inc. will provide topographic surveys, Conceptual drawing of the Donaldsonville hydrographic surveys and geotechnical Riverfront provided by the SJB Group, LLC investigation of the Donaldsonville site. of Baton Rouge. New Appointments By Governor Jindal to the Port’s Board of Commissioners

Corey C. Sarullo was appointed in August John Tilton was appointed as a new Brenda Hurst was appointed as a new Clint Seneca was appointed as a new 2009 as a new commissioner for the commissioner in August 2009. He commissioner in October 2009. She is a commissioner in December 2009. He is Port of Greater Baton Rouge, replacing replaced former commissioner Donald graduate of Louisiana State University, a lifelong resident of Iberville Parish and former commissioner Brady Hurdle from Schexnayder as a representative of the where she earned a Bachelor of Science a 1999 graduate of False River Academy. Iberville Parish. Sarullo is a 2003 graduate Louisiana Farm Bureau. Tilton is the degree with a major in accounting. She Seneca then attended LSU-Eunice, where of Louisiana State University, where he owner/manager of Belle Vale Plantation works at Wells Fargo Bank in Baton Rouge he studied Business Management. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in West Baton Rouge Parish and worked as Vice President Site Manager of Online is currently the deputy assessor for the with a major in agricultural business. Mr at the port for many years as a member Customer Service. She is a certified public Iberville Parish Assessor’s Office. Sarullo is branch manager of the Bank of the Longshoremen’s Association. He accountant (CPA). of Maringouin at the bank’s interstate is a lifelong cattle farmer and is retired branch located in Grosse Tete. from the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 3033. Tilton graduated from Louisiana State University in 1970 where he earned a degree in accounting.

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