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Mississippi River Shipping

an overview of the transport of materials along Mississippi to for shipment overseas.

Reinvesting in America

Food and Agriculture Programs:

Reinvesting in America believes that a community supported and financially accessible food system, is an essential building block for creating a healthy and just society. The Reinvesting in America program examines the production, harvesting, and access to nutritious food, alongside the economic factors that cause individuals to experience food insecurity. The grassroots organizations included in the Reinvesting in America (RIA) database for their work to address agriculture and food production issues do so in a multitude of ways, including: promoting land stewardship, supporting family farmers, mentoring future small farmers, creating local sources of fresh produce, and developing urban gardens to better serve the nutritional, environmental, and social needs of the community. RIA also supports organizations that work to improve the status and promote the human and civil rights of farmworkers and their families. Innovative partnerships have been forged by creative grassroots organizations to make government agriculture programs more accessible to individuals and communities in need; most notably, the Farm to School program brings food from local farms directly into school breakfast and lunch programs. from www.worldhungeryear.org

second harvest media contact

SOURCE  America's Second Harvest

Maura Daly, +1-312-641-6421, or Ross Fraser,  +1-312-641-6422, both of

http://www.secondharvest.org
America's Second Harvest

convert oil tanker

Source
 

Convert a Surplus Oil Tanker to a Floating Water Plant
Use Deep Ocean Water for Desalinization of Seawater

 

ASCO: Oil distribution: River manager

ASCO
Address Information
100B FLORIDA ST.
RIVER RIDGELa.70123
 

Telephone / FAX / Email / Web
Tel: (504) 832-8623
FAX:(504) 832-8644
Email:todd.barlow@ascous.com
Web: 

Contacts
Todd Barlow River Operations Manager

 

new orleans port information

Cargo - Foreigh Trade Zone

Foreign-Trade Zone No. 2 is sponsored by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans as Grantee pursuant to a grant issued by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Washington, D.C., on July 16, 1946. The Zone consists of seven sites designated in the records of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board described below.

Site 1: (3 acres) adjacent to the Napoleon Avenue Wharf on the north bank of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Open yard space operated by the Port of New Orleans. Phone: 528-3264

Site 2: (76 acres) in the Almonaster-Michoud Industrial District (AMID) on the Inner Harbor
Navigation Canal and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, New Orleans. (35 acres) operated by Dupuy Storage and Forwarding Company.

Site 3: (573 acres) New Port Industrial Park, adjacent to Almonaster-Michoud Industrial District on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet at Bayou Bienvenue in New Orleans.

Site 4: (4 acres) Lacour Warehousing, Inc. Facility located at 200 Crofton Road, adjacent to the Louis Armstrong International Airport, Kenner (Jefferson Parish).

Site 5: (182 Total acres) Six general purpose operators manage 37 warehouse sites in the Metro New Orleans. The FTZ zone site operators are as follows:

Dave Streiffer, Inc.
Phone: 504-486-6263
Email: inquiries@davestrieffer.com
Metro International Trade Services, LLC
Phone: 504-897-1874
Email: N/A

Dupuy Storage and Forwarding Company
Phone : 504-245-7600
Email: dupuy@dupuystorage.com

 

Neeb-Kearney, Inc.
Phone: 504-587-1100
Email: info@jkgroup.com

Pacorini USA, Inc.
Phone: 504-270-0100
Email: info@pacoriniusa.com

Port Cargo Service, Inc.
Phone: 504-891-9494
Email: kk@portcargo.com

Site 6: (136 acres) Arabi Terminal and Industrial Park Mile 90.5 on the Mississippi River Port Terminal and Industrial Park.

Site 7: (216 acres) Chalmette Terminal and Industrial Park; Old Kaiser Plant; St. Bernard Highway, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, Industrial Site.

Additionally, FTZ #2 has 5 manufacturing subzones as follows:

ExxonMobil Corporation
Chalmette, LA

Murphy Oil
Meraux, LA

Northrop Grumman Avondale Operations
Avondale, LA

ConocoPhillips Company
Westlake, LA

Trinity Yachts
New Orleans, LA


Contact: Mr. Jim Reese
Telephone: (504) 528-3264
Fax: (504) 528-3390
Email: jim@portno.com

PORT OF NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ZONES

Definition of zones, names of companies, addresses, and phone numbers.

http://www.portno.com/pno_pages/cargo_ftz.htm

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:10:40 GMT

In addition to the traditional cargoes of coal, petroleum, iron ore and forest products, which are mostly declining in importance, the rising cargoes include meat, cocoa beans, and South American fruit. General, or casual, cargo tends to be more valuable than bulk cargo, but greatly complicates the Homeland Security risks. The ratio of imports to exports is important, because it is expensive to have a ship return empty. Shippers will therefore favor a port where there are expectations of return cargo. Oil tankers are particularly likely to return empty, since their ballast is mostly river water; but, who knows, perhaps global warming will make river water valuable to some tropical oil producer. A quirky problem is that most of the crude oil entering East Coast ports is currently coming from Nigeria, a notoriously corrupt nation. This has led to a thriving business of car-jacking in the Philadelphia suburbs, with the stolen cars promptly packed in empty containers returning to Africa.

Oil tankers: 4,295 as of 2007

As of 2007, the United States Central Intelligence Agency statistics count 4,295 oil tankers of 1,000 deadweight tons or greater worldwide. Panama was the world's largest flag state for oil tankers, with 528 of the vessels in its registry. Six other flag states had more than 200 registered oil tankers: Liberia (464), Singapore (355), China (252), Russia (250), the Marshall Islands (234) and The Bahamas (209). By way of comparison, the United States and the United Kingdom only had 59 and 27 registered oil tankers, respectively.

colonialism impact on Africa self sustaining food production

Colonialism partitioned African land into several categories (Crown lands, Native lands and reserves), and development followed along the lines of this categorization. Africans were kept off the most fertile lands and development was limited to Crown lands. The rest of the fertile land was taken up for plantation agriculture which transformed the food crop economies into cash crop producing ones at the cost of African life and limb. As seen in German Tanganyika, it was a legal offence for Africans to attempt to produce food to feed themselves. Their energies belonged to the European plantations. The ensuing conflicts that erupted as a result of clashing values and interests on African land, claimed the lives of the most energetic Africans, leading to a severe loss of labor. The Maji Maji revolt, the Mau Mau uprising and the Chimurenga are few case studies in this war of "all against all" triggered by colonialism.

The system of infrastructural development under colonialism greatly discouraged local food production and exchange among Africans. These facilities were principally designed to transport raw materials out of Africa and therefore ran from hinterland to coast. African societies bereft of these resources were therefore not part of the communication network. Their contribution to the colonial economy was limited to the supply of labor in European plantations and other related projects which were of little benefit to African food production. This infrastructural deficit remains the backbone of Africa´s agricultural dilemma today because large cities and urban communities are deprived of agricultural resources which are abundant in remote and isolated villages.

US Food Waste: 40-50% of all food never gets eaten

a shocking forty to fifty per cent of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten.

Timothy Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, has spent the last 10 years measuring food loss, including the last eight under a grant from the US department of agriculture (USDA). Jones started examining practices in farms and orchards, before going onto food production, retail, consumption and waste disposal.

 

What he found was that not only is edible food discarded that could feed people who need it, but the rate of loss, even partially corrected, could save US consumers and manufacturers tens of billions of dollars each year. Jones says these losses also can be framed in terms of environmental degradation and national security.

3rd largest drainage basin in world

The Mississippi River forms the 3rd largest drainage basin in the world. Its system of 29 locks-and-dams stretches 669 miles between Minneapolis, Minn. and Granite City, Ill., controlling nearly 2/3 of the nation's watershed.

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