Conrail, Agway Invest $8.5 Million To Create Fertilizer Port
PHILADELPHIA Agway
Inc. and Consolidated Rail
Corporation began construction
September 19, 1988 on a coordi
nated program to create a port
facility to handle fertilizers at
Conrad’s Pier 122 on the Dela
ware River in South Philadelphia.
Start-up of operations is scheduled
for early next year.
Conrad wdl invest $4.1 mdhon
to modify Pier 122 for additional
unloading operations from ves
sels. Agway wid build a $4.4 md
lion storage and distribution ter
minal adjacent to the pier on four
acres it is leasing from Conrad.
When the work is completed on
this $8.5 mdlion project. Pier 122
wdl be the largest, most efficient
multi-commodity inbound bulk
terminal at any U.S. North Atlan
tic port. It is capable of handling
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fertilizer, non-ferrous ores, rock
salt, and other dry bulk com
modities.
Agway Inc., a farm supply and
food marketing cooperative based
in Syracuse, NY, wdl distribute
fertilizer via both Conrad’s rad
freight service and truck to its ser
vice area in the Mid-Atlantic and
New England states.
Agway will construct a four
dome warehouse storage facility
at the site capable of storing
72,000 tons of product
Wdliam A, Hider, Agway pres
ident and chief executive officer,
stated that the port in Philadelphia
will enhance the farm coopera
tive’s ability to obtain fertilizer
ingredients from anywhere in the
world.
“The new Philadelphia port
facility, combined with our barge
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purchasing power in obtaining fer
tilizer supplies for our farmer
members and other customers,”
Hiller said.
Richard D. Sanborn, Conrad's
president and chief operating
officer, said that by making the
investment, “Conrail wdl estab
lish Pier 122 as a highly efficient
facdity for fertilizer imports and
also will be better able to compete
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with barge lines operating from
Gulf Coast import terminals.
In addition, this project wid
enhance the Port of Philadelphia’s
competitive position in the export
coal market, as the inbound ves
sels carrying fertilizer, once
unloaded, wdl create a potential
supply of empty vessels ready for
loading of coal at Conrad’s Pier
124 coal export terminal, which is
adjacent to Pier 122.”
Conrad’s modifications at Pier
Lancastar Firming, Saturday, Novtmbar 19,1989-Al9
122 will permit continued use of
the terminal for iron we ship
ments, maximum efficiency in
unloading ocean-going vessels,
prevention of production contami
nation and improved environmen
tal protection. The work includes
equipping one of four existing
ship loaders with a larger clam
shell bucket, installing dust col
lection devices and a washdown
system, and enclosing a conveyor
belt.