Business View Magazine | February 2020

78 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 5301 Hollister St, Houston, TX 77040 | 713-489-4609 www.dxpe.com Customer Driven Solutions Providing products and services to a variety of industries through Innovative Pumping Solutions (IPS), Supply Chain Services and MROP Products and Services. Rotating Equipment • Safety Equipment • Bearings & Power Transmission • Industrial Supplies • Metal Working formed long-term relationships.” With the market’s fluctuations in response to operational costs, global freight rates, and shipping economics, BW Terminals makes every effort to be one step ahead for its customers so that when the markets do change, they’ll have the ability to change with them. “Effective January 1, 2020, there are regulations from the International Maritime Organization that will require all marine vessels calling on U.S. ports to use very low sulfur marine fuel,” Marrocco reveals. “The petroleum markets are currently adapting to this new supply dynamic, and there are a lot of moving parts to meeting the low sulfur spec. Our current 800,000-barrel expansion at our Harvey facility is in response to that regulation change.” With these assets all being new, Marrocco says they’re not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. “This 800,000-barrel project, for instance, was designed with the customer’s