InterMoor Inc. is building a new 22-acre facility and expanding its services at Port Fourchon. The new base is on lot 614 in Slip B.
The new facility will include more than 111 m (1,200 ft) of bulkhead waterfront dock space, one 800-metric-ton (882 short-ton) heavy-lift crane, two 60,000-pound support cranes with fork lifts, a 929-sq-m (10,000-sq-ft) warehouse, 743-sq-m (8,000-sq-ft) office and training center, and 557-sq-m (6,000-sq-ft) living quarters. Construction is under way and is scheduled to be complete in November.
Rendering of InterMoor’s new 22-acre facility.
With this new facility, the company plans to expand its capabilities to market equipment storage, maintenance, and heavy-lift services.
“InterMoor is excited to be the largest tenant in Port Fourchon’s northern expansion property,” Kirk Trosclair, InterMoor project manager, says. “This new facility will allow us to expand our client-based services and position us to support the deepwater Gulf of Mexico for many years.”
InterMoor is consolidating its existing capabilities at Fourchon into this new facility to establish a central presence on the Gulf Coast. Here, the company will house everything it takes to do mooring systems in the GoM and around the world, the company says.
The company currently performs most of its load outs from this location. “Fourchon is the place to have your mooring equipment,” Trosclair says. “When you have a load out, it’s just that much easier from Fourchon.”
InterMoor also is transferring around 75% of the equipment from its Amelia, Louisiana, facility to Fourchon. “You can’t get larger vessels into Morgan City anymore,” says Trosclair. “Before, we had to handle equipment twice; get tugs and barges to ship our mooring equipment to Fourchon and then load it on a vessel there. Now, we only have to handle the equipment once.”
The company plans to increase its full-time staff at the port from 15 to 40 people to handle the added capacity.
An additional component of InterMoor’s strategy at Fourchon is to provide fuel to its clients. The company is in negotiations with a contractor to put in a fueling facility onsite.
The advantages are obvious, Trosclair says. “Vessels can come in, we can load them with our mooring equipment, and they can also get their fuel while at the dock.”
