New Orleans · For international exhibitors

Exhibition Stand Builder in New Orleans

The rotation stop with the mile-long hall.

Custom exhibition stands for the International WorkBoat Show and the global congresses that rotate through the riverfront — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. No ocean freight, no carnets, no US entity required. If your congress is only here once every few years, shipping a stand for it never made sense anyway.

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Our work

Stands that work as hard as a congress schedule

New Orleans floors host delegates who fly in from everywhere for densely programmed weeks — audiences with forty minutes between sessions and no patience for a stand that wastes them. Everything below came out of our own shop: designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed before shipping. What you approve from abroad is what lands on the floor.

Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.

The international decision

Ship a stand for a city your show visits once?

New Orleans earns its exhibitors through rotation: the great medical, scientific and industry congresses cycle through the riverfront in some years and other host cities in others. That calendar quietly demolishes the case for shipping a stand — two ocean legs, customs paperwork and weight-billed handling, all to place your walls on a floor your show may not return to for three or four years.

The rental model was built for exactly this. Your design language carries over — send photos or CAD of the stand your brand runs at home and we rebuild it to US materials and US electrical code — it stands for the one appearance, and afterwards there’s nothing to store, ship back or depreciate. When the congress moves to its next city, the design travels as files and rebuilds there on the same fixed model.

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Nothing crosses a border

No carnets, no brokerage, no duty questions, no crate in clearance while your congress opens. Fabricated, trucked and installed inside one country, on one fixed number.

02

No asset between appearances

The stand exists for the show and then stops costing you money — no warehouse, no return freight, no depreciation line waiting for a rotation that’s years away.

03

US electrical from the start

Overseas components routinely fail US floor inspection — voltage, plugs, certification marks. Everything we wire is US code from the first cable.

04

Rotation-ready design

The approved renders rebuild in your congress’s next host city at that city’s published fixed price — same design, same project manager, lessons carried forward.

The US show floor, translated

Three terms that decide a New Orleans budget

Delegate exhibitors arriving from Europe, the Gulf or Asia meet a show-floor system here that has no equivalent at home. The full six-term glossary lives on our Las Vegas exhibition stand page; these are the three that bite hardest here.

Drayage

No equivalent outside North America

The venue’s fee for moving freight from dock to stand space, billed by weight — and in a hall this long, planned routing matters as much as the rate. We price the line against your actual stand before you commit and file at advance rates.

Show labour

≈ Appointed contractors, per show rules

What exhibitors may build themselves on a Louisiana floor is set by each show’s regulations, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price carries the crews and supervision, so there’s nothing for you to source.

Feet, not metres

Your 6×6 m is their 20×20

US floor plans sell in feet, and congress space contracts follow. The pricing table below carries both units — quote your space in whichever your contract uses.

New Orleans pricing

The numbers, in USD, in the open

Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in New Orleans, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.

Fixed pricing · New Orleans · all-inclusive
FootprintMetricFixed price (USD)Typical use
10×10≈ 3×3 m · 9 m²$13,000 – $15,500Inline. First US market entry, lead capture.
10×20≈ 3×6 m · 18 m²$20,000 – $24,000Inline. Demo plus seated conversation.
20×20≈ 6×6 m · 37 m²$31,000 – $35,000Island. Two or three zones, four-sided.
20×30≈ 6×9 m · 56 m²$33,000 – $38,500Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space.
20×40≈ 6×12 m · 74 m²$38,500 – $49,500Island. Multiple engagement zones.
20×50≈ 6×15 m · 93 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Long-run product wall.
30×30≈ 9×9 m · 84 m²$44,000 – $55,000Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating.
30×40≈ 9×12 m · 111 m²$60,500 – $71,500Island. Flagship, double-deck capable.
In the fixed price Design & build
  • Stand design in 3D, revised until approved — free of charge
  • Fabrication in our own shop, to US electrical code
  • Graphics production, mounting and QC
  • Flooring, furniture, lighting
  • Screens, mounts and AV hardware
Logistics & service
  • Complete pre-assembly with photo approval before shipping
  • Round-trip freight to your New Orleans venue
  • Supervised install and dismantle crews
  • COI, EAC and show-services paperwork
  • A single project manager, reachable in your working hours
Billed by the show, not by us

The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the stand — no vendor anywhere can legitimately “include” them. We estimate each line against your actual stand before you commit, then file the orders inside the advance-rate window.

  • Stand space itself
  • Electrical drops and floor distribution
  • Material handling (drayage)
  • Rigging, if you’re hanging a sign
  • Daily stand cleaning
  • Internet
The ocean invoice

The crossing costs exactly a stand

Shipping an owned stand looks free because the stand is paid for. Then the crossing gets priced — crating, two ocean legs, customs, drayage on the loaded weight, and US crews decoding a metric kit against a congress deadline — and for a 6×6 m island the logistics bill lands, almost to the dollar, on the price of simply building the stand here:

Flying your stand to New Orleans
Refurbishment & export crating$4,000
Ocean freight, both directions, insured+ $9,200
Customs brokerage / ATA carnet+ $2,300
Drayage on the full crated weight+ $5,600
US crews assembling an unfamiliar metric kit+ $7,400
Electrical rework to pass US inspection+ $2,500
Spent on logistics, not the stand$31,000
Plus transit damage risk you still own
Pure Exhibits, built in the US
6×6 m (20×20) custom stand, fixed$31,000
Ocean freight & customsNone exist
Domestic round-trip freightIncluded
Install & dismantle crewsIncluded
US-code electricalBuilt in
Spent on the stand itself$31,000
Photo-verified before it ships

On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: space, electrical service, drayage, rigging, cleaning, internet — the show’s own tariffed charges, billed to every exhibitor whoever builds. The difference is the weight the drayage gets billed on, and which side of the comparison forecast those lines before you signed.

Same money — a shipment, or a stand. One buys crates on a ship and a month of tracking anxiety; the other stands on the floor, photo-verified before it ever left our shop.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center · Riverfront

One building, a mile of it. Your hall letter is a distance.

The Morial Convention Center runs in a single line along the Mississippi for roughly a mile — one of the longest exhibition buildings anywhere. That shape makes the hall letter on your contract a logistics fact, not an address detail: it sets which dock serves you, how far your freight travels inside the building, and where your team’s daily walk begins. It’s the first thing we read, and the whole plan follows from it.

Halls A–J

WorkBoat · rotating congresses

The mile-long run of halls, each zone with its own dock service. Freight routed to the wrong end of this building loses hours; freight routed correctly makes the building feel half its size. Routing is the craft here, and it’s ours.

Riverfront & upper levels

Poster sessions · specialty exhibits

Congress poster halls and specialty spaces on the upper levels run their own access rules and install discipline — different from the main floor, covered by the same fixed price.

Hotel venues

Adjacent riverfront hotels · corporate meetings

The hotels beside the centre carry a steady corporate and association calendar. Ballroom logistics — freight lifts, padded corridors, overnight installs — are their own discipline, handled the same way.

What we run for you here
  • Venue and hall confirmation from your contract before anything books
  • Floor plan filings and venue approvals
  • Dock target times scheduled to the right building
  • Electrical, rigging and drayage ordered at advance rates
  • COI and contractor paperwork per venue
  • Supervised install, show-day support, dismantle
Worth knowing before you plan

New Orleans’ autumn dates sit inside hurricane-season freight planning, so for those shows we schedule with weather margin and hold the pre-build photo gate earlier — a storm should cost the plan a buffer, never the stand. The compensation: a compact, walkable host city where your delegation’s hotel, the hall and dinner are all on the same riverfront.

The rotation stop

Your congress moves. Your exhibiting model should too.

The congresses that fill the Morial — medical, scientific, maritime, energy-services — mostly live on multi-city rotations. For an international exhibitor that means New Orleans is rarely a destination decision; it’s this year’s coordinates for a programme that will read Chicago, San Diego or Orlando next. Owning and shipping a stand against that calendar means paying to move an asset your own show keeps moving away from.

The alternative is to make the design the asset and the build a service: renders approved once, rebuilt at each rotation stop at that city’s published fixed price, with one project manager holding the thread and the exhibitor manual for every stop read by the same people who read the last one. The congress rotates; your presence just appears, consistent, wherever it lands.

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The design is the asset

Approved renders rebuild in any US rotation city — no re-quoting, no redesign fees, no drift in how the brand shows up from one host city to the next.

02

Congress-grade meeting stands

Delegates arrive scheduled, not browsing. Seating, acoustic separation and a place to open a laptop out-earn spectacle on these floors — and we design accordingly.

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One thread through the rotation

The same project manager runs each stop, carrying your artwork, preferences and floor lessons forward — so year three feels like a routine, not a restart.

Your US calendar runs past New Orleans? Chicago, San Diego, Orlando, Las Vegas and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one stand design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your rotation lands there.

In their words

What event managers say after the show

★★★★★
“They never just build the booth and disappear — I always know I have someone on call and ready to jump in when the unexpected inevitably happens. That level of responsiveness makes a huge difference in high-pressure event environments.”
Amanda Horner · Three years of Adobe Summit booths · Google Review
★★★★★
“I’ve worked with Pure Exhibits for almost a year now, and have had such a great experience! They are our go-to for trade shows, and create memorable booths that represent our brand well. The team is incredibly responsive and reliable.”
Lexi von Schottenstein · Google Review
★★★★★
“It’s always a pleasure to work with Utsav. The process is simple, straightforward, and high quality. I have worked with them for 3 years now and will continue!”
Carlos Bautista · Three-year client · Google Review
★★★★★
“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Amanda Horner · Google Review
New Orleans show calendar

When to start, by show

New Orleans’ fixed point plus its defining pattern: the named fixture below recurs annually, while the congresses that fill the rest of the calendar rotate through in their own cycles. Name yours and we’ll confirm its New Orleans year and pull the manual before we quote.

Verify months annually · rotating meetings not listed
ShowTypical monthVenueStart planning
International WorkBoat ShowNovember – DecemberMorial Convention Center5 months
Rotating medical & scientific congressesVaries by yearMorial Convention Center5 months

Rotation is the planning trap — a congress’s New Orleans year is easy to misread from abroad, and space contracts don’t forgive the error. Send us the show name before you book anything; confirming the city and year costs nothing.

Working backwards

The calendar that matters runs in reverse

Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. For a team planning across an ocean, the whole project exists to arrive at that gate comfortably, with your only travel being the flight to the show itself.

−6 MONTHSScope agreed in one call in your morning; fixed USD figure signed.
−4 MONTHSHall zone confirmed from your contract; layout submitted for approval.
−10 WEEKSArtwork frozen — your files, converted to imperial print specs by us.
−8 WEEKSAdvance rates on show services expire. The gate everything aims at.
−4 WEEKSFreight slot and dock time locked to your end of the building; weather margin held for autumn dates.
−2 WEEKSComplete build stands in our shop; photo sign-off from your desk.
SHOW WEEKInstall lands in your window; you fly in to a working stand.
Rush and last-minute

The rotation landed on you late. Four weeks still works.

A congress slot confirmed after the budget year closed, a shared-stand partner who withdrew, a crate held at a foreign port — rotation calendars surprise even careful teams. With design, fabrication and print in one building, approval-to-floor runs about four weeks. Same quality gate — built and photographed before shipping — same published price.

  • Roughly four weeks, approval to show floor
  • Photo-verified pre-build, even on rush
  • 10×10 through 20×40 (3×3 m through 6×12 m) on compressed timelines
  • The published price holds — no rush premium
Questions international exhibitors actually ask

Exhibition stands in New Orleans — FAQs

How much does an exhibition stand cost in New Orleans?
The table above is the answer: $13,000 – $15,500 for a 3×3 m (10×10) through $60,500 – $71,500 for a 9×12 m (30×40) — design, fabrication, graphics, furniture, freight, crews and management in one contractual USD figure. The venue bills space, electrical, drayage and rigging separately to every exhibitor; we forecast those lines against your stand before you sign.
We have no US company. Can we still work with you?
Yes — a large share of our clients exhibit in the US with no local presence at all. We invoice the fixed figure in USD to your home-country entity, accept international wire transfer and card, and provide the contract and payment documentation your finance team needs. No US bank account, address or subsidiary required.
Is it really cheaper to build in the US than to ship our stand?
Total both directions of ocean freight, insurance, customs or carnet fees, drayage on the full crated weight, and US labour assembling an unfamiliar metric kit, and the answer is nearly always yes — the comparison above walks through it line by line. The part no spreadsheet captures: a stand damaged mid-ocean weeks before your show has no good outcome. Building locally deletes the risk along with the cost.
Can you rebuild the stand design we use at European shows?
Yes. Send photos or CAD of your existing stand and we rebuild the design to US materials, US electrical code, and the height, rigging and setback rules of your specific show. Most designs translate directly; anything a regulation forces gets flagged at render stage — visible from your desk, months out — not on the show floor.
What is drayage, and is it in your price?
Drayage (material handling) is the venue’s fee for moving freight between dock and stand space, billed by weight and invoiced directly to every exhibitor — no vendor can legitimately include it, and any who claims to has buried it. We forecast the line precisely against your actual stand before you sign, then file inside the advance-rate window. A locally built stand also simply weighs less at the dock than an imported crate, which is the honest way that bill shrinks.
Can our own team build the stand in New Orleans?
Each show’s regulations govern what exhibitors may do themselves on this floor, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price already carries the crews and supervision — for a delegation flying in for a congress week, there’s nothing to build, source or manage either way.
Our congress alternates between New Orleans and other cities. How does that work with you?
As one continuing programme. The stand design is approved once and rebuilds at each rotation stop at that city’s published fixed price — New Orleans this year, Chicago or San Diego the next — with the same project manager carrying your artwork, preferences and floor lessons forward. You budget each year in one sitting and never own, store or ship a physical asset between stops.
The Morial Center is enormous. Does our hall assignment really matter?
More here than almost anywhere — the building runs about a mile along the river, and the hall letter determines which dock serves you, how far freight travels inside, and where your team walks in each morning. It’s the first thing we read off your space contract, and the freight routing, install sequence and even hotel advice follow from it.
How do approvals work across time zones?
Mostly asynchronously: renders and revisions move by email on a one-to-two-day cycle, and live calls are scheduled in your morning. The project has two hard checkpoints you can verify from anywhere — approved 3D renders before fabrication, and photographs of your completed, powered stand before it ships to the venue. We run projects with teams across Europe, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific on every major show cycle.
Our US calendar includes other cities. Do you cover them?
More than fifty of them — Chicago, San Diego, Orlando, Las Vegas, Houston and beyond, on the same published fixed model. One stand design, one project manager, and a known USD price in each city, so a multi-show US year budgets in a single sitting from your home office — the full directory lives on our US exhibition stand hub.
Fixed USD pricing · No US entity needed · Full-service

Your New Orleans stand, without the ocean.

Tell us the show and your space size — metres or feet. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed USD figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it. And if this is one stop on a rotation, say so — the next city’s number comes in the same reply.

Or call us directly — (800) 379-8451