Finding a crane in New Orleans is the easy part. The hard part is the lift plan, the rigging, the ground under the outriggers, and the crew that signals the pick. We plan and rig crane lifts across the New Orleans metro from start to finish — and bring in the right crane for the load, the radius, and the site.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides crane & rigging services in New Orleans, LA and the surrounding metro. We plan the lift, bring in the crane sized to the load, radius, and site, and rig, signal, and set the pick with our own crew. Our crews work across New Orleans and nearby Louisiana metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A crane rental gets you a machine and an operator. It does not get you the load weight and center of gravity, the rigging that attaches to the right points, the ground-bearing check under the outriggers, the street or site closure, or the crew that takes the load off the hook and moves it into the building. On New Orleans's port project cargo & energy jobs, those are the parts that decide whether a pick goes to plan.
Badass Logistics owns the lift, not just the hook time. We size the crane to the load and radius, write the lift plan, rig and signal the pick, and set the load — and where the crane can only reach the door or the dock, the same crew takes it the rest of the way with jacks, skates, and gantries. Crane rental vs a rigging company →
Crane work in New Orleans, LA concentrates in the Michoud industrial corridor in New Orleans East, anchored by NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, the Almonaster Avenue industrial corridor near the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, the Chalmette refining district downriver in St. Bernard Parish, and the Napoleon Avenue container terminal district along the Mississippi River, and each of those sets up differently — lot space for outriggers, overhead lines, rail spurs, and neighbors that can't be shut down. The buildings are a mix of century-old riverfront wharf warehouses with rail spurs and elevated dock platforms against flooding, and newer single-storey pre-engineered buildings in the eastern industrial corridor, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
New Orleans, LA runs on port project cargo & energy, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
New Orleans's industrial base — port project cargo & energy — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical crane lifts for New Orleans customers include:
The picks that come up most in New Orleans are grain elevator conveying equipment, coffee roasting and bagging lines, large-diameter tank and cylinder assembly tooling, and dockside gantry cranes — and the crane is sized to the heaviest of them at the longest radius the site forces, not to the weight alone. Who is asking changes the plan as much as what is being lifted: a pick for New Orleans's bulk grain and agricultural export handling, coffee import and roasting warehousing, large-scale aerospace structure fabrication, or steel and heavy-lift break-bulk cargo handling usually lands inside a running site, so the lift window, the exclusion zone, and the traffic plan are written around their operation.
RTUs, chillers, cooling towers, and mechanical equipment picked onto roofs across the New Orleans metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the New Orleans metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the New Orleans metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the New Orleans metro.
Plenty of New Orleans jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-12, I-20 and I-49, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
The Port of New Orleans handles bulk grain, coffee, steel and containerized cargo on the Mississippi River, including through its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. Served by BNSF, Canadian National, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and CPKC, switched through the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. Loads arriving that way often need a crane at both ends — off the railcar or dock and onto a trailer, then off the trailer and onto a pad in New Orleans — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in New Orleans, LA is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller New Orleans jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same New Orleans crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of New Orleans? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout New Orleans, LA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout New Orleans and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Metairie | Jefferson Parish County | 5 mi |
| Kenner | Jefferson Parish County | 10 mi |
| Gretna | Jefferson Parish County | 3 mi |
| Marrero | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Chalmette | Saint Bernard Parish County | 7 mi |
| Harvey | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Slidell | Saint Tammany Parish County | 28 mi |
| LaPlace, IL | Piatt County | 685 mi |
| Houma | Terrebonne Parish County | 46 mi |
| Boutte | Saint Charles Parish County | 19 mi |
| Laplace | Saint John the Baptist Parish County | 26 mi |
| Terrytown | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Hammond | Tangipahoa Parish County | 45 mi |
| Bayou Cane | Terrebonne Parish County | 47 mi |
| Estelle | Jefferson Parish County | 8 mi |
| Thibodaux | Lafourche Parish County | 46 mi |
| Bayou Boeuf | Lafourche Parish County | 32 mi |
| Grand Bayou Mobile Home Park | Lafourche Parish County | 42 mi |
| River Ridge | Jefferson Parish County | 8 mi |
| Belle Chasse | Plaquemines Parish County | 9 mi |
| Mandeville | Saint Tammany Parish County | 28 mi |
| Luling | Saint Charles Parish County | 18 mi |
| Woodmere | Jefferson Parish County | 7 mi |
| Destrehan | Saint Charles Parish County | 17 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our New Orleans services or get a quote.
Most New Orleans jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same New Orleans crew.
rigging contractors in New Orleans →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across New Orleans as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in New Orleans →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in New Orleans.
machine tool movers in New Orleans →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for New Orleans plants.
New Orleans plant relocation →In New Orleans we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in New Orleans.
The same New Orleans crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and machinery loading and unloading.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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