Port NOLA, Lineage expand cold storage capabilities

The Port of New Orleans and Lineage Inc., a provider of temperature-controlled warehousing and integrated transportation solutions, announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) now will provide inspections at one of Lineage's import house cold storage facilities at the port.

The inspections will occur at Jourdan Road cold storage facility in New Orleans East. Import-houses are facilities that specialize in streamlined, on-site USDA inspection services for imported proteins. The new import service complements Lineage’s existing USDA export inspection services at its Jourdan Road facility, Port NOLA and Lineage officials said in a press release.

Lineage has two cold-storage facilities at Port NOLA: One at the Henry Clay Avenue Wharf in uptown New Orleans; the other on Jourdan Road in New Orleans East along the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal.

Lineage’s two cold-storage facilities at the port span more than 460,000 square and offer ancillary services that include blast freezing as well as integrated transportation supply chain solutions.

Lineage entered the New Orleans market in 2020 by acquiring New Orleans Cold Storage as part of its acquisition of Emergent Cold. In 2021, a $42 million expansion of Lineage’s Jourdan Road facility was announced, growing from 160,000 square feet to 304,000 square feet. The project was completed in 2022.

Additionally, through state of Louisiana and Port NOLA funding, a $20 million investment in infrastructure updates is being made to the Jourdan Road facility.

The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad connects the port to all six Class Is.