Is there a difference in throughput at Gulf Coast seaports before and after selected disasters?

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We hope this article is the first to examine disaster aftermath and recovery from the perspective of throughput processing among Gulf Coast maritime seaports. We believe that such a perspective is important for understand the national, international, and global contexts of disaster aftermaths because they represent the doors to the world internally and externally. By examining throughput, we hoped to see whether recovered states of existence occurred whereby seaports were handling just as much or more goods (grain loads, in this case) than they did before the selected disasters. If they handled fewer loads and abnormality still existed, then the impacts could be diverse -- ranging from lost jobs to physical infrastructure and maritime transportation issues that may diminish the ability to satisfy supply and demand among markets. Although it was beyond the scope of this initial endeavor to look at such issues, we hope to shed some light on whether normalcy (from the perspective of grain loads processed) was achieved again after selected Gulf Coast disasters. Our findings showed that normalcy was not achieved following selected Gulf Coast disasters.

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