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Mile 229.6 - 229.6 - 228.6 RBD - Port Of Baton Rouge

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026 � 1 min read

229.6 - 228.6 RBD - Port Of Baton Rouge

The Port of Baton Rouge has 45' deepwater access for ocean-going vessels, 3,000 continuous feet of wharf, 525,000 square feet of warehouse space, 50,000 square feet of open shipside storage, rail and truck access to transit sheds, covered tracks between warehouses allow for all-weather operations, and a conveyor systems from landside to wharf.

There is over 73,000,000 gallons of liquid bulk storage capacity at the port including storage for molasses, specialty chemicals, petroleum products, and fuels. There is also a 40,000 ton raw cane sugar warehouse and a flour mill that produces 360 tons of flour per day.

The two large white domes just upriver of the I-10 bridge are wood pellet storage domes for the Drax Biomass export terminal. Draw Biomass has a terminal in the Port that loads ships with wood pellets which are exported to the United Kingdom to burn in coal fired power plants. The wood pellets are from trees that are harvested in Louisiana and Mississippi, ground up, and pressed into pellets. This practice is ostensibly to help the UK meet carbon reduction goals but many critics of the practice believe that wood pellets are as bad or possibly even worse than coal when all manufacturing and transport factors are considered.

The Port of Baton Rouge is also home to the Community Coffee roasting plant which is the tall white building towards the back of the port just below the I-10 bridge.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities built a new grain and oilseed export terminal at the downriver end of the Port of Baton Rouge in 2013. The terminal can unload 20 to 24 barges per day, can load vessels holding 60,000 metric tons, and can move 5,000,000 metric tons of grain and oilseed every year.

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