Most ports along the U.S. Gulf Coast had reopened on Thursday following lengthy closures from Hurricane Ida, which lashed southern Louisiana with 150-mile-per-hour winds that caused extensive infrastructure damage and floods. Two of Louisiana’s main ports, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, reopened late on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. They joined the already functional terminals of Panama City, Biloxi, Mobile, Pascagoula, Bienville, Beaumont, Cameron, Lake Charles, Port Arthur, Sabine, Port Allen, Baton Rouge, Plaquemines, St Bernard, Berwick, Port Allen, and New Iberia. The Mississippi River also reopened on Thursday with restrictions from the Southwest Pass through New Orleans for daylight hours only, a spokesperson said. But critical ports that act as oil hubs for handling the up to 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) […]