River terminal moving grain despite fire, labor trouble

In the four months since the EGT grain terminal resolved its dispute with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, it has shipped about 1 million tons of bulk grain to Asian ports.

A fire in one of the facility’s three conveyor towers in early April halted operations for one day and has slowed the loading process since then, Larry Clarke, CEO of EGT, said.

He said he expects to have all three shiploaders operational by the end of June.

Aside from that glitch, operations have gone as expected. “We’re still a startup operation, improving daily, weekly, monthly. One million tons is not bad for a startup operation.”

Clarke said there have no repercussions from the labor disputes that put EGT in the news before it opened in February.

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