Louisiana

A life-threatening storm surge and extreme winds are expected to batter the Louisiana coast Wednesday as Hurricane Francine makes landfall.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has awarded two $1.5 million grants to projects that seek to improve or modernize short-line rail infrastructure.

Work is underway to develop container-handling terminals in as many as five states along the Mississippi River.

A new law authorizing tandem loads of 20-foot containers went into effect in Louisiana on June 17.

NS starts a new operating plan for intermodal; CN plans investments in Louisiana and Wisconsin; and MxV Rail agrees to share expertise with a UK group.

A truck driver was killed in Louisiana on Monday when a load he was transporting on a flatbed trailer came loose and smashed into the cab.

The cause of a tractor-trailer driving off a highway and bursting into flames in Rayne, Louisiana, remains unclear.

FreightWaves takes a look back at some of the most destructive weather events of 2021 and their impacts on freight.

Canadian Pacific says it will work to get passenger rail service going between Baton Rouge and New Orleans should its merger with Kansas City Southern pull through.

The past week in social media images features deadly Northeast flooding, a 75-ton piece of industrial boiler on a flatbed and more.

State and local leaders have told people to leave parts of the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ida likely approaches Sunday landfall.

The past week in social media images features a sticky Northwest truck spill, a raging California wildfire and more.

The next tropical storm could impact the U.S. just a week after Henri drenched parts of the Northeast (forecast video included).

FreightWaves discusses why and how the Water Institute of the Gulf is developing a digital platform monitoring shoaling on the Mississippi River.

Truckers could run into areas of flooding this weekend in the lower Mississippi Valley as a potential tropical storm develops (forecast video included).

To sweeten the voting trust application before regulators, CN and Kansas City Southern are offering to divest 70 miles of a KCS line in an area of Louisiana where both railroads have competing lines in order to create an “end-to-end” network.

After flash flooding and record rainfall in parts of the South earlier this week, truckers face the same threat Friday (with forecast video).

Massive amounts of rain have flooded parts of southern Louisiana this week, leading to road closures (with forecast video).

More record rainfall and significant flooding will slow down drivers from Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley (with forecast video).

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants the Surface Transportation Board to take up Amtrak’s request asking to establish passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans.