January 22, 2021 By Waterways Journal The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) is close to halfway done with a $100 million expansion at its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. The port is on track to put four new 100-foot-gauge container gantry cranes into operation in the fourth quarter of 2021. Work currently underway at the Napoleon terminal includes repairing substructure piles for the wharf, adding new wharf space, replacing fendering along the dock, upgrading the electrical system and extending the landslide crane rail at the Nashville Avenue Wharf “C.” The $100 million expansion project at the Napoleon Avenue terminal will boost the port’s container handling capacity from the current maximum of 840,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) to a million TEUs annually. The four new cranes are being fabricated in China, with delivery expected in early June. When the four new cranes are put into service, the facility will have a total of nine container gantry cranes.