Chemserve Terminal

CHEMSERVE TERMINAL “It’s really provided us with the opportunity, the options of running an extremely efficient and safe operation but also having what would be considered a lean team. But most of those people are available at all times because, I don’t want to say that the facility runs itself, but it is very automated,” explains Chemserve Terminal Vice President, Matt Law. Although Chemserve was founded in 2014, its roots can be traced back through three generations. Its predecessor was Allied Terminals, a company started by Law’s grandfather. There was also a sister company, Allied Transportation. Law’s father had three brothers. They, along with a partner, eventually took over the two companies. When most of them got close to retirement age, a decision was made to sell. “At the time, my father and I were running Allied Terminals and, with the sale triggered, we had decided we did not want to be out of the industry,” Law recalls. “We had a large group of customers who had asked us to stay in or get back into the industry, so we could continue to provide services for them.” Law and his father knew of a company that was shutting down operations at a large chemical plant and there was a support facility nearby that was no longer operational. So they purchased that facility in Wilmington, North Carolina and started Chemserve Terminal. The Wilmington facility is Chemserve Terminal’s largest. It spans 45 acres and has 21 tanks, four of which were built for new products this year. The Fayetteville facility sits on nine acres and has five tanks. Both are accessible via interstate highway, rail, and water via the Cape Fear River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The facilities didn’t consist of much more than tanks when they were purchased. This allowed Chemserve Terminal’s leaders to use knowledge and relationships gained from previous endeavors to build an efficient, safe operation from the ground up. New Kent Coatings did all the specialty linings for the interior of