Aerial sight of Hendricks River Logistics’ Keokuk, Iowa, incurable.
As coal deliveries on UNITED STATE inland rivers remain to decrease, terminals at which coal was a main asset are needing to expand their service. Hendricks River Logistics, situated at Keokuk, Iowa, at Mile 371 on the Mississippi River, just recently revealed its strategy to change its coal-handling center right into a multimodal terminal that can take care of different products, consisting of plant food, grain, lumber, steel as well as various other completely dry mass freights using barge, train as well as vehicle.
Hendricks River Logistics has 16,000-plus feet of personal sector track, short lived for greater than 80 barges, as well as the brand-new multimodal transloading terminal. The center likewise has a 24/7 harbor watercraft.
The incurable, previously Orba-Johnson Transhipment, was constructed in the late 1970s as well as has actually given that transloaded greater than 50 million lots of freight on 33,000-plus barges as well as over 435,000 rail vehicles.
“While we will continue to serve our coal customers’ needs here at Hendricks River Logistics, we are also looking at our future after coal,” states Shawn Duer, basic supervisor. “We feel with the almost 300 acres of available land combined with the basic infrastructure we have in place when it comes to rail and barge, we can transform our business into a premier multimodal transloading facility on the Upper Mississippi River.”
