Lake Providence, Louisiana, USA

The general cargo dock and ramp have a 75 ton crawler crane with a 4 cubic yard clamshell bucket for loading and unloading. The dock has a conveyor belt, 36" X 690 feet, with radial stacker connection to a 72,000 square feet concrete storage pad. Rail tracks extend to the end of the dock for direct river to rail service. In addition an 8" liquid fertilizer pipeline extends to the end of the dock and ramp.

Eight to ten hours are needed to unload a barge at the dock or ramp. It takes approximately 5 minutes to load a truck from the storage pad and 15-20 minutes to load a rail car. Annual river throughput averages 350,000 tons with total annual throughput of 530,000 tons.