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add value to it, and ship it back out again to service
farmers. Our third company, there, is Kaskaskia Ship-
yard, and they’re starting to build towboats. They an-
ticipate building two a year.”
The Evansville Grain Terminal at Mile 10 is both a grain
export facility and a marina. Its “River House” termi-
nal receives truck shipments of wheat, corn, and soy-
beans from elevators operated by Gateway FS through
the area and directly from area farms. This facility is
capable of loading 350,000 bushels per day. “They
ship about 320 barges or more a year out of that facil-
ity,” Weilbacher reports.
Finally, on the Mississippi River, at Mile 125.5, the
Port District has the Kellogg Dock – a lock-free site for
downstream bound tows. “The Kellogg Dock was origi-
nally owned by the Consolidated Coal Company,” says
Weilbacher, “and we purchased it and used it as an
outbound coal facility. It’s operated by Kinder Morgan.
Currently, we’re not shipping anything through that fa-
cility because of the coal market, but we do have a
presence on the Mississippi River.” The dock also has
a 300 rail car yard with service provided by the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Across all of its terminals, the Kaskaskia Regional Port
District ships a total of 1.4 million tons a year on the
