When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, New Orleans calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the New Orleans metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in New Orleans, LA and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. 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.
New Orleans's port project cargo & energy base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across New Orleans. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in New Orleans, LA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are 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. They 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 — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's bulk grain and agricultural export handling, coffee import and roasting warehousing, large-scale aerospace structure fabrication, and steel and heavy-lift break-bulk cargo handling.
New Orleans, LA runs on port project cargo & energy, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging 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 rigging jobs for New Orleans customers include:
A New Orleans lift list usually runs to grain elevator conveying equipment, coffee roasting and bagging lines, large-diameter tank and cylinder assembly tooling, and dockside gantry cranes, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the New Orleans metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the New Orleans metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the New Orleans metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors 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.
Not every New Orleans rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, Canadian National, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and CPKC, switched through the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. The Port of New Orleans handles bulk grain, coffee, steel and containerized cargo on the Mississippi River, including through its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. Add I-10, I-12, I-20 and I-49 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a New Orleans plant can leave on a trailer, in a rail car, or over water — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging 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.
Industrial Rigging 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, Industrial Rigging across Louisiana or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Louisiana — pick the nearest crew:
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.
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 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, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in New Orleans: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, and MRI and medical equipment rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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