A recently created barge has actually gotten in solution for American Sugar Refining, Inc., a participant of West Palm Beach- based ASR Group, as well as its moms and dad firms– Florida Crystals Corporation as well as Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative ofFlorida The 450-foot-long Knot Refined left from the Port of Palm Beach on Friday to supply Palm Beach County- expanded as well as -machine made raw sugar to ASR Group’s Domino Sugar Refinery in New York.
Built by North Kingstown, R.I. shipyard Senesco Marine, the 450-foot-long Knot Refined took greater than 2 years to build as well as is the initial oceangoing, completely dry freight barge of its dimension constructed in the united state given that the very early 2000s. With an 18,000-ton ability, the barge is bigger than those formerly utilized, as well as it is additionally geared up with enhanced abilities as well as is a lot more lasting than any type of vessel utilized in the past.
The Knot Refined will certainly make roughly 18 big salamis annually from the Port of Palm Beach to transfer raw sugar mainly to ASR Group’s walking cane sugar refineries in Yonkers, N.Y. as well as Baltimore, Md.
“We have relied on third-party barges to transport our raw sugar coastwise since the 1970s,” claimed Chuck Ferrer, ASR Group’sSr Director ofOcean Freight Logistics “At that time, sugar from Florida Crystals and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative was sold primarily to trade houses. When the two companies acquired the Yonkers refinery in 1998 then additional refineries in Baltimore and outside New Orleans in 2001, we became fully vertically integrated, but we didn’t control our own domestic freight. We’re excited that now the Knot Refined changes that.”
Florida Crystals as well as Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative sustainably expand as well as mill sugarcane in western Palm Beach County as well as create raw sugar. Approximately 650,000 brief lots of that sugar is delivered every year from the Port of Palm Beach to ASR Group’s refineries with port centers run by Florida Sugar & & Molasses Exchange,Inc (FSME). Trucks transportation the raw sugar from the Belle Glade as well as Pahokee mills to FSME’s sugar terminal at the Port, where it is released right into a 21,000-ton ability storehouse. Roughly when each week, sugar is filled onto an intrude a constant procedure at a price of 700 bunches per hr.
