Gateway Logistics Group Handles Historic WWII Shipment

Gateway Logistics Group recently handled a historic shipment for The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. The shipment consisted of three large slabs of concrete from the Atlantic Wall as well as a crate of sand from Utah Beach.

WWII Normandy Slabs Arrive at NOLA

Breakbulk Staff | Tue, 07/26/2011 - 19:23

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Huge pieces of what were once part of Adolf Hitler’s defenses along Utah Beach in Normandy have arrived at the Port of New Orleans.

The slabs of concrete will be installed at the National World War II Museum in the Warehouse District of New Orleans, according to a report in The Times-Picayune.

The historic cargoes were unloaded from the 44,977-dead-weight-ton Bonn Express at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal and loaded onto flat bed trucks for the 5-mile journey to the museum.

The largest piece weighed 11.6 tons and the other two pieces weighed 6.61 and 2.65 tons each.

The slabs were a thank-you gift from the Utah Beach Museum in Norway to the museum for its help with the French museum’s recent D-Day tribute expansion.

Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Parke, Gateway Logistics Group.