| Recent News Releases | |
Date | Article |
| 2/25/2010 | West Calcasieu Port nominates 4 projects for FY2011 Appropriations Act |
| | The West Calcasieu Port has submitted four infrastructure improvement projects totaling $15.75 million for consideration in the FY2011 Appropriations Act. |
| 12/6/2009 | The West Calcasieu Port ‘engine’ is designed to promote
economic growth in the western portion of Calcasieu Parish
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| | If Lynn E. Hohensee, West Calcasieu Port director, had three wishes, he knows what at least one of them would be.
"If I rub the bottle hard enough and the genie is of a kind nature, I would like to see the West Cal Port continue to make a strong, positive impact on our regional economic growth,” he said.
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| 11/20/2009 | F. Miller Construction Becomes
the Newest West Calcasieu Port Tenant
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| | West Calcasieu Port officials have announced that F. Miller Construction, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Orion Marine Group, Inc. (NYSE: ORN), has become the port’s newest tenant. |
| 9/16/2009 | Maintenance dredging project at West Calcasieu Port complete |
| | Returning the basin to full operation is critical to the port’s barge services
The West Calcasieu Port has completed the maintenance dredging project for its west barge basin.
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| 8/26/2009 | Dredging project enters final phase |
| | The final phase of a maintenance dredging project is under way at the West Calcasieu Port’s west barge basin. |
| 8/18/2009 | West Calcasieu Port barge basin
dredging project ahead of schedule
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| | The third and final phase of the maintenance dredging project at the West Calcasieu Port’s west barge basin is underway. |
| 8/3/2009 | ACT No 474 - Establish Ports of Louisiana Tax Credits |
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The West Calcasieu Port in association with the Ports Association of Louisiana (PAL) worked diligently during the recent Louisiana Legislative session to secure passage of a significant piece of legislation that allows tax incentives for businesses locating in and shipping through Louisiana ports. In the final days of the legislative session, the provisions of H.B. 744 were combined into H.B. 215. HB 215 now provides for a Ports of Louisiana Infrastructure Tax Credit Program in an amount equal to the private investment in qualified public port facilities to be taken by a private investor at 5 percent per year. Additionally it provides for a $5 per ton tax credit to Louisiana-based business for the Import and Export Tax Credit Program for “qualified cargo” “Break Bulk and Containerized cargo” imported or exported through Louisiana public ports. |
| 7/14/2009 | Dredging project under way at West Calcasieu Port basin |
| | The much anticipated dredging of the West Calcasieu Port’s west barge basin should be complete by August, the port’s top official recently told the Sulphur Kiwanis Club.
Director Lynn Hohensee said the $2.31 million project is being funded primarily through state and federal monies with $50,000 each from the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury and the city of Sulphur. |
| 6/24/2009 | Legistlative Fiscal Office - Tax Credit For Port Infrastructure Investments |
| | Port Investor Tax Credit grants tax credits against income taxes equivalent to 5% per year of the total capital costs associated with qualifying port infrastructure projects, for a twenty-year period (essentially reimbursing the costs over 20 years).
See PDF file for more information. |
| 6/11/2009 | Ports finding themselves in dire straits |
| | Ports all around Louisiana are in dire straits. Funding in many ports is exhausted.
“The till is about empty in the ports right now,” said Lynn Hohensee, director of the West Calcasieu Port, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Sulphur Kiwanis Club. Currently, the total amount of funding available from the state is around $23 million but that represents a shortfall of around $55 million from the projected financial need, according to Hohensee. And monies from the state do not even represent a majority of the funds for Louisiana’s ports. |
| 6/10/2009 | Municipal/parish funds critical to
West Calcasieu Port barge dredging project
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| | With the recent approval of municipal and parish funding support by the City of Sulphur and the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, pre-maintenance dredging work continues at a fevered pitch at the West Calcasieu Port. |
| 4/15/2009 | Sulphur’s Kennison appointed to West Calcasieu Port board |
| | Sulphur-resident Joseph R. “Dick” Kennison has been appointed to the West Calcasieu Port five-person board of commissioners by the Sulphur Mayor Ron LeLeux effective May 1, 2009. |
| 4/10/2009 | West Cal Port work expected to start soon |
| | West Calcasieu Port Director Lynn Hohensee said Thursday that work will soon be under way at the port's west barge basin. |
| 4/9/2009 | West Calcasieu Port awards contractor
bid for barge basin dredging project
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| | The West Calcasieu Port board of commissioners voted this week to award Mike Hooks, Inc. the contract for the maintenance dredging of the port's west barge basin located on the north shore of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. |
| Archives | |
| Date | Article |
| 3/5/2009 | West Cal Port solicits bids for barge basin dredging project |
| | Southwest Daily News
The West Calcasieu Port announced this week that it has begun seeking bids for the dredging of the port's west barge basin located along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway .
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| 3/2/2009 | West Calcasieu Port solicits contractor
bids for barge basin dredging project
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| | The West Calcasieu Port announced today that it has begun seeking bids for the dredging of the port's west barge basin located along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
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| 2/20/2009 | West Calcasieu Port nominates
3 projects for FY2010 Appropriations Act |
| | The West Calcasieu Port has submitted three infrastructure improvement projects for consideration in the FY2010 Appropriations Act. The three projects included in the WCP's request are the expansion of the port's existing west barge basin, the construction of shoreline bulkheading and the installation of perimeter security fencing. |
| 1/16/2009 | House and Senate Committees on Transportation, Highways and Public Works visit West Cal Port. |
| | The West Calcasieu Port was one of 10 south Louisana ports that received a visit from the House and Senate Committees on Transportation, Highways and Public Workson Jan. 16, as part of a first-hand effort for the state legislators to see what the port needs are and how money appropriated is being spent. For more on the port tour, please click on the Information section. |
| 11/3/2008 | West Calcasieu Port launches new website |
| | The West Calcasieu Port has launched its new website (http://www.westcalport.com/). “Growing the port and developing the economy of Southwest Louisiana is very important to our board of directors,” said Larry Mashburn, president of the WCP board. “But, in this day and age, if you aren't highly visible on the internet, you really are not in the race." |
| 10/27/2008 | Sulphur’s Dugas appointed
to West Calcasieu Port board of directors
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| | Sulphur-resident Wilmer Dugas has been appointed to the West Calcasieu Port five-person board of directors by the Sulphur City Council effective Oct. 1, 2008. |
| 5/1/2008 | West Cal Port Vital to Regions Growth |
| | The West Cal Port's “primary waterfront position lies along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which gives the West Cal Port its industry-valued niche,” said West Calcasieu Port Director Lynn Hohensee. “In turn, the Port of Lake Charles has little business activity along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. |
| 04/28/2008 | Sulphur's Clement, Vincent appointed to West Calcasieu Port board of directors |
| | Two Sulphur-area residents – Brent Clement and Matt Vincent – have been appointed to the West Calcasieu Port five-person board of directors. The appointments were effective April 8, 2008. |
| 11/20/2007 | West Calcasieu Port Strategic Plan |
| | The WCP entered into a Strategic Planning process in late 2006.
The objectives for the West Calcasieu Port's Strategic Plan are:
• Identification of Criteria to Promote the Mission
• Develop Strategies for Attaining Identified Outcomes
• Define Resources Needed for Strategy Attainment
• Provide a Vision for the Port to Improve Communication and Funding
• Project Financial Conditions for Meaningful Strategic Management |
| 02/20/2007 | West Calcasieu Port selects BYL International
to develop Port Strategic Plan
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| | The West Calcasieu Port has retained BYL International, Inc. to facilitate the development of the facility's long-range Port Strategic Plan. |
| 06/20/2006 | West Calcasieu Port names Hohensee port director |
| | West Calcasieu Port officials recently announced that the facility's board of directors has contracted with Lynn E. Hohensee to serve as the facility's new port director, effective June 1, 2006. |
