Mile 180.3 - 180.3 - 178.8 LBD L & L Dry Bulk Transfer & Mooring

180.3 - 178.8 LBD L & L Dry Bulk Transfer & Mooring

Specializing in grains and scrap metals, L&L cranes snort black diesel smoke high into the atmosphere as it swings its buckets up & down and back & forth, with seemingly endless conveyor belts, and a giant grain scoop that grinds & whines louder than everything else, as it reaches down and pulls out mountains of grain from barges, and then ratchets them upwards to unload its cargo into a gaping funnel, which collects the grains and drops them onto conveyor belts which transfer the grains into the cavernous holds of big freighters bound for other continents around the world. And so America’s grain reaches around the globe. L&L is perhaps the first example of this massive transfer paddlers get close to, but there are others in operation within the Baton Rouge Harbor.