Lineage to Expand at Port of New Orleans

Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards, Port of New Orleans President and CEO Brandy D. Christian, and Lineage President and CEO Greg Lehmkuhl announced the company will build a $42 million expansion of its Jourdan Road cold-storage facility in New Orleans East, where Lineage plans to create 50 new direct jobs.

One of two major Lineage facilities at the Port of New Orleans, the cold-storage complex at Jourdan Road along the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal will grow from 160,000 square feet to 304,000 square feet. The company will retain 188 existing Louisiana jobs with the new project while creating an estimated 50 new direct maritime and warehousing jobs.