# St. James (US SNJ)

**UN/LOCODE:** US SNJ  
**Country:** United States  
**Water Body:** Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** River (Natural)  
**GPS:** 29.9792, -90.8275

Pipeline operators and tank-storage names — Plains, NuStar, Ergon and the marine terminal first built for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — set the character of St. James (UN/LOCODE US SNJ) on the west bank of the Mississippi, about 45 miles above New Orleans within the Port of South Louisiana, the largest tonnage port district in the Western Hemisphere. The site is a major crude-oil terminalling and storage point where pipelines meet barge and ship movements, handling tows and tankers up to Aframax size on the river. Its role is energy and liquid bulk, not boxes: there is no container or conventional general-cargo operation here. Extensive pipeline links reach the U.S. interior and the wider Gulf Coast, complementing the waterborne crude trade. Forwarders moving containers or project cargo should look to New Orleans or Baton Rouge instead, while for crude and petroleum-products logistics on the Lower Mississippi, St. James is a reference point.

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