Local Economy of Shipping Containers in New Orleans

New Orleans is a coastal shipping container port location and transportation hub where intermodal Conex boxes are transported both by rail and road throughout the city. New Orleans is geographically located in the South on the Gulf of Mexico and its extensive network of sea and both railroad freight routes and interstate highway system make New Orleans a hub for container shipping in the USA. The Conex Depot New Orleans container storage facility is located at ZIP 70127 between the 90 and 10 freeways.

Popular Shipping Containers Uses in New Orleans

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New Orleans shipping container projects and shipping container related businesses

The Box Spot: a cool New Orleans shipping container restaurant. The Box Spot restaurant at 1700 N. Claiborne Ave. is housed in a couple of converted Conex boxes. Normally used to carry bulk goods aboard ocean going cargo ships and trains, creative developers are looking for ways to “upcycle” old containers into something fun and useful. Owner Gina Duncan says that repurposing containers into a sea container restaurant was her husband’s idea. Former restaurateurs looking for a new casual dining concept, the Duncans previously operated J’s Seafood Dock oyster bar and restaurant in the French Market. The Box Spot is actually divided into 2 separate food vending spaces. Side #1 is the “Fresh Side” that serves up healthy fresh salads and wraps. The other space is called the “Wing Side,” specializing in chicken wings dressed in different types of sauces. Gina decorated the restaurants herself, using recycled pallets, pipes and wood to fabricate most of the seats and interior signage. Between the 2 Conex boxes is a wooden deck with outdoor seating tables and a fresh herb garden. “The concept behind this was to bring something fresh and new to the community,” co-owner Justin Duncan explained. “Liven up the neighborhood and have something nice for everyone to come and enjoy.” The Box Spot is located near the Claiborne exit ramp where it exits off of highway I-10. If The Box Spot fares well, the Duncans have plans for other container restaurants in other New Orleans neighborhoods down the road.

The New Orleans Home and Garden Show exhibited other shipping container projects. Featured were a Container Village display where old Conex containers of different sizes retrofitted for different uses will be on display. Creative local designers have put together prototypes of a child’s playhouse, doghouses, a tiny guesthouse and even a steel sea container disguised and painted in camouflage as a hunting or fishing cabin.

Shipping container home developments, Shipping container apartments and tiny homes in New Orleans

KAN House – a shipping container home build in New Orleans. A local married couple – the Kalozdi’s – Kicker and his wife Anne Kalozdi were looking for a new home that satisfied a number of criteria. “I wanted a house that had the floor plan I wanted, one that I could work from.” and as importantly a house that would be safe in the event of one of the Gulf Coast’s fierce hurricanes. “I wanted a house that I didn’t want to have to worry about the siding being ripped off because of high winds. Something that was going to be a little bit more sturdy,” explained Kicker.

At home in the Irish Channel neighborhood, the KAN House is one of New Orlean’s first shipping container housing projects. The house is assembled out of seven gray cargo containers put together to create the complete home. Measuring eight feet wide and 40 feet long, there are two containers placed side by side with another two behind those to form the 16-foot wide ground floor. Another three containers stack on top to make the second floor for their home office, with even a room on a 3rd floor.

New Orleans Railroad Conex container shipping routes

With the strategic benefits of both the port and its double-track Mississippi River crossings, the city attracted six of the seven Class I railroads in North America: Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, Kansas City Southern Railway, CSX Transportation and Canadian National Railway. The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad provides interchange services between the railroads.

The Port of New Orleans

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) is Louisiana’s only international container port and is located on the Mississippi River near the Gulf of Mexico. Port NOLA is a general cargo port, moving containerized cargo such as plastic resins, food products, consumer merchandise; and break bulk cargo such as steel, metals, rubber, wood, and paper. Port NOLA enjoys a strategic location which grants direct access to 30+ major intermodal hubs such as Memphis, Chicago and Canada. The port is connected by 14,500 miles of waterways, six Class I railroads and Tennessee’s interstate freeways. New Orleans is the only deep-water port served by six (6) Class I railroads: BNSF, Canadian National (CN), CSX, Kansas City Southern (KCS), Norfolk Southern (NS), and Union Pacific (UP). The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad is key to Port NOLA’s role in the New Orleans area freight-based economic development.

New Orleans main export businesses that use shipping containers

New Orleans is a major grain port shipping grain from the MidWest out to in international buyers. Other major New Orleans exports include raw and processed agricultural products, fabricated metals, chemicals, textiles, oils, petroleum and petroleum products, tobacco, and paperboard.

Louisiana’s Top 10 Exports: Miscellaneous petroleum oils: $15.7 billion, Soya beans: $9.1 billion, Natural gas (liquid): $6 billion, Light petroleum oils: $4.8 billion , Crude petroleum oils: $4.4 billion , Corn: $3.3 billion, Solid residues including soya bean oil-cake: $1.7 billion, Wheat (excluding durum): $818 million , Polyvinyl chloride: $718 million, Miscellaneous organic/inorganic compounds: $644 million

Many of New Orleans’s largest companies employ shipping containers in their business

Tidewater, Stewart Enterprises, Barton Brands, Bombay Company, Crescent Rising, Entergy New Orleans, Gulf Air Transport, Hornbeck Offshore Services, International Trade Mart, Langenstein’s, LIFT Productions, Maison Blanche, New Orleans Cold Storage, Pride Air, Sazerac Company, Southern Theatres, Standard Coffee, Sucré, Taylor Energy, Textron Marine & Land Systems, Tidewater (marine services), TurboSquid

Using Cargo storage containers for self storage in New Orleans

A very popular use for various sizes of steel shipping containers in New Orleans is self storage.
Consumers usually either buy a used shipping container or rent one from a New Orleans shipping container seller and store it on their property or rent a space to park the storage container. Conex Depot specializes in the sale of shipping and storage containers in the Metro New Orleans area and can give you advice and pricing on the best size of shipping container for your personal storage or business storage needs. Whether you need a storage container for keeping inventory, securing construction materials, or storing furniture during a remodeling project, we have a number of storage solutions that will meet your needs.

Conex Depot offers all sizes and grades of shipping containers for sale in New Orleans. Our sales team offer free project advice and the very best pricing on quality new and used shipping containers. Call now: (661) 412-2227.