In February 2006, the Bush Administration approved the purchase of a UK-based firm, which operates at least five US port facilities, by a United Arab Emirates purchaser. The decision proved politically controversial.
This is part two of an overview of the port facilities identified in news reports; the material is almost exclusively from the P&O website. Media appear to be underreporting the scale of the $6.8 billion deal.
The Department of Homeland Security has identified a different sub-set of P&O operations as being the relevant port facilities. They added Houston and Norfolk; they removed New York.
New Orleans -
P&O Ports, Louisiana
P&O acquired 100 percent of Gulf Services
P&O bought Transocean Terminal Operators and New Orleans Marine Contractors;
in 2000 , TTO and NOMC accounted for nearly 60 percent of the Port of New Orleans’ general cargo business.
The Port of New Orleans is the only deepwater port in the United States served by six class one railroads.
P&O has more than two miles of contiguous deep water berth space, more than 1 million sq. ft. of covered shed space, 400,000 sq. ft. of open wharf in four facilities.
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Nashville Avenue:
62 acre facility handles containers and breakbulk cargoes; more than 1.2 miles of continuous deep-water berthing ; part of the world's longest continuous general cargo quay; 1,172,620 sq. ft. of covered storage.
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Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal:
8 acres owned adjoins 88 acres under lease; 1.4 miles of berths, 27 acres of warehouse space and over 50 acres of container/open storage space
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P&O Ports in Baton Rouge:
P&O Ports Louisiana, Inc. (formerly Baton Rouge Marine) is the largest and most experienced terminal operator, stevedore, steamship agency and line handler in the Port of Baton Rouge. Deep-water (45 ft.) access to 3,000 linear feet of wharf space; storage capacity for in-transit goods includes 525,000 sq. ft. of covered transit sheds and 50,000 sq. ft. of open shipside storage.
Nearly 50 percent of all American markets are accessible by barge through the Mississippi Inland Waterway System,
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Port of Lake Charles
P&O Ports operates as Lake Charles Stevedores, Inc. (LCSI) ; 12th largest seaport in the U.S., 4th largest liner service seaport in the U.S. Gulf and a major West Gulf container load center; 203 square miles in Calcasieu Parish; accommodates 5 million tons of cargo annually; principal cargoes moving through the District's terminals are bagged rice, flour and other food products, paper products, plywood, petroleum coke and other petroleum products, woodchips, barite, and rutile.
New York - New Jersey
Joint venture, Port Newark Container Terminal, P&O shareholding 50 percent
Advanced 180 acre container terminal, capacity of 1 million containers (measured in 20-foot equivalent units) with 4,400 feet of deep water wharf.
In addition, the New York Daily News reports that P&O manages the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal, which is included in a long list of US facilities listed on the P&O website.
This port has five 1,000-foot-long berths suitable for servicing the world’s largest cruise vessels on the Hudson River only a few blocks west of Times Square in the heart of Manhattan.
Among P&O Ports North America customers are Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Crystal Cruises, Cunard, Festival Holland America, Norwegian, P&O Cruises, Premier, Princess, Regal, Royal Caribbean, Seabourn and Silversea. The terminal is also home to an array of trade shows and special events managed by P&O Ports North America.
P&O reported 2004 volume - 692,845 TEU (equity adjusted)
Note: TEU means "Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit;" containers are counted in 20-foot lengths.
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