CAMERON, LA. — Port Cameron LLC plans to develop a new deep-water staging port in Cameron, a town near Lake Charles in Louisiana’s Gulf Coast region. As the largest private energy services facility on the Gulf Coast, the new port complex will facilitate energy development in the Gulf of Mexico. Construction on the $1.5 billion project will commence in November, and Phase I of the project is slated for completion by the third quarter of 2017. Phase I will encompass 500 acres, with an additional 750 acres available for expansion in the future. In addition to the new port, the project includes constructing approximately 25,000 linear feet of all-weather roads and two new concrete bridges. The new port will be located on the Calcasieu Ship Channel, roughly 185 miles east of Houston and approximately 50 miles south of I-10. Mark Nicholas, John Talhelm, Richard Quarles and Joe Berwick of JLL Houston’s office are leading the leasing efforts for Port Cameron. According to an economic impact study by Louisiana-based economic consulting firm Loren Scott Associates, when fully leased, activity at the port will create approximately $2.8 billion in sales and about 10,000 jobs for the state of Louisiana.
