The Louis Dreyfus Co. transportation and shipping facility at West Memphis.
Louis Dreyfus Co. LLC of Amsterdam on Monday opened a truck-to-barge facility on the west side of the Mississippi River levee in West Memphis.
This is part of $40 million project that was a condition of the city being awarded a $10.8 million grant in 2013 to expand railroad infrastructure to service its port.
The new 800,000-bushel terminal is operational, receiving, storing and shipping corn and soybeans along with other agricultural products grown in the region, according to a news release. It’s part of the origination network for LDC’s export facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The complex has four slipform concrete bins and a 500,000-bushel steel bin for storage along with a 12,000-bph dryer. The elevator is connected to the barge-loading station via an overhead 60,000-bph covered belt conveyor running almost 3,000 feet out to the water’s edge. The company said four truck dumps along with a truck automation system provide the local producer with a quick turnaround time within the facility.
The facility’s location guarantees adequate protection from flooding and will allow the company to add rail services in the future, according to the release.
The West Memphis terminal is a delivery point for crops grown around the mid-Delta region, the company said.
“We chose to invest in West Memphis because we believe in what this area can produce. The best-in-class technology we have here allows us to serve our customers the best way possible,” Sean Doyle, regional head of Oilseeds for North America at LDC, said in the release.
With this facility, the company now manages four terminals on the Mississippi River.
A previous version of this story was incorrectly published with a photograph of a different facility.
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