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The Model 8 Cranes Have Arrived

01/30/2012
As most of you know, we had commissioned the building of two new cranes and chronicled the building of these cranes here: https://sites.google.com/a/sjstevedore.com/birth-of-a-crane. Watching the new cranes being built was an interesting and anxious ...read more
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Birth of a SJS Crane

10/07/2011
Birth of an SJS Crane We’re at it again… we’re leading the pack and building two more cranes to add to our operational capability. These two cranes we’re adding are the next generation of cranes as built by the Gottwald cra ...read more
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St. James Nominated for two IBJ awards!

09/07/2011
Breaking News… St. James Stevedoring has been nominated and have become finalists in two categories of the 2011 IBJ Awards as conducted by the International Bulk Journal. When notifying us as a finalist, IBJ publisher, Ray Girvan, noted to S ...read more
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Birth of the Mid Stream Buoy System

06/06/2011
In the early 1980’s Mr. Gil Chatagnier, now President of Lanier and Associates Consulting Engineers www.lanier-engineers.com, was instrumental in designing the midstream buoy systems which have become ubiquitous on the lower Mississippi Rive ...read more
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High Water on the Mississippi - An Open Letter to Our Customers

05/14/2011
An open letter to our customers, As I’m sure you are all aware, we are experiencing unprecedented high water issues here on the Mississippi river. You are all also likely hearing about facility and fleet shut downs and seeing declarations of  ...read more
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Terminaling, Land Development and Management Services – We’re More Than Just A Stevedore

02/09/2011
St. James has offerings in terminal services which, by utilizing our assets to serve you in situation, can open your facility to new business and new customers all at a fraction of the cost to acquire the equipment alone.  With this equipment comes  ...read more
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Barges, Ships and Floating Cranes on the Mississippi River- What’s in a name?

10/28/2010
Barges, Ships and Floating Cranes on the Mississippi River- What’s in a name? If you’ve spent any amount of time on the Mississippi River, you surely have noticed that virtually every vessel, boat, or other watercraft has been given a name… but wha ...read more
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Stevedoring - Mid Stream Transloading on the Lower Mississippi and Hurricanes

07/07/2010
So how have hurricanes affected midstream stevedores on the Mississippi River?  What a complex question.  Every hurricane season is different and every storm has its own peculiarities. Midstream, dry bulk cargo transloading has its own set of peculi ...read more
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High Water and Low Water on the Mississippi River – What is the impact?

06/08/2010
The Mississippi River below Baton Rouge is an amazing river.  Its depth can range up to 200 feet and there are numerous areas which require local knowledge, provided by the river pilots, to insure safe transit of ocean going vessels. While no one  ...read more
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Dry Bulk Mid-Stream Stevedoring on the Mississippi River – what is it?

01/15/2010
Mid-Stream stevedoring as it is practiced on the lower Mississippi River involves the transfer of dry bulk, steel, heavy lift and break bulk cargo directly between ocean bulk carriers and river barges.  A typical mid-stream facility consists of  ...read more
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