Powerful port: Port of Lake Charles is the nation’s 10th-busiest port district - American Press

Powerful port: Port of Lake Charles is the nation’s 10th-busiest port district - American Press

The Port of Lake Charles has proven itself to be a strategic energy port of national importance. “Our port is the 10th-largest port in the United States and our ship channel handles about 1,000 vessels a year and about 333 LNG vessels a year,” Therrance Chretien — the port’s director of cargo and trade development — told members of the Kiwanis Club Lake Charles this week. The Port manages the Calcasieu Ship Channel, which runs inland 36 miles an…