Nice try baby, but your chart is ranked by container shipping. Grain are
bulk cargos. Levees are needed to maintain water depth for navigation.

"Doug Carter" wrote in message
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In article SZWUe.1946$b37.1338@trnddc04, sfb wrote:
New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away.


Not insignificant but hardly crucial; New Orleans ranks #14 in the top
20 U.S. Ports:

(http://www.bts.gov/publications/us_i.../table_13.html)

Still, a grain terminal could be maintained without risking a million
people.