Economy News Weather Horoscopes E-mail Visit our sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It has long been one of the busiest and most efficient international ports in the country, leading the nation in tonnage of goods conveyed. It has an international airport. Its fine port helped make the New Orleans area one of the leading industrial centers in the South, although most of the larger industries were developed relatively recently.
Food processing is a major enterprise.
The region has extensive shipbuilding and repair yards as well as factories manufacturing a wide variety of products. In recent years many petrochemical plants have located along the Mississippi River west of New Orleans. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.