LaPorte, Ind. — Helena Chemical Co., Collierville, Tenn., has purchased a parcel of land to become the first customer in the new Inland Logistics Port (ILP) at the 800-acre Kingsbury Industrial Park in northwest Indiana, according to the Halfwassen Group LLC, an Indiana real estate investment company that has developed the ILP. J. Shoffner General Contractors will be the general contractor of the project and will use all local workers. “Helena plans to continue to service our customers with better and more efficient facilities in the LaPorte and surrounding counties area. We are very excited about the site we have chosen and the support of the community that we have received,” said Helena Division Manager Doug Goff, who is based in Carmel, Ind. “Our employees and our customers should see a real significant difference in our facility and workplace safety and speed together.” As an essential requirement of the transaction, nearly 2,500 feet of new railroad right-of-way was extended through the new lot from the existing active railroad line serviced by the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Future plans show the railroad line also connecting to the newly-constructed rail spur leading to the CSX mainline tracks. In 2012, CSX gave the ILP its CSX Select Site certification. It is the only CSX Select Site in Indiana and the only such site serving the Chicago region.
Transparency Across the Fertilizer Value-Chain