Burnside Port (port code: USBUR / USUDE) is a sub port of Baton Rouge. It is located on the lower shore of the Mississippi River, almost 60 river miles downriver (43 kilometers or 27 miles southeast by air) from Baton Rouge and 84 kilometers (52 miles) west-northwest of the Port of New Orleans.
The port’s Terminal Ship Wharf ships and receives bauxite and a variety of dry bulk materials by both vessel and barge. Other materials are also handled, including raw sugar, alumina, coal, urea, phosphate, iron ore, chrome and manganese ores, zinc, cement, fluorspar, salt, coke, and barites. An elevated belt conveyor system that moves bauxite from the wharf to a storage shed has capacity for 200 thousand tons or if it moves cargo to an open storage area, the capacity is 225 thousand tons. At the rear of the wharf are three storage silos with total capacity for 10 thousand tons.
The types of vessels regularly calling at this port are bulk carriers, accounting for about 78%; and passenger vessels, taking up around 7%. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 256 meters. The maximum draught is 8.6 meters. The maximum deadweight is 93,005t.