Stockton, Calif.-Yara North America on May 6 celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art import fertilizer warehouse, located at Rough and Ready Island inside the port of Stockton, Calif. The facility has the capacity to store 80,000 tons of dry bulk fertilizers, and is capable of handling vessels holding up to 30,000 tons. It also touts a loading time of 15 minutes or less per truckload. Yara will store urea and its own specialty fertilizers at the warehouse, which can serve agricultural and industrial customers by both truck and rail shipments. Yara held a private grand opening celebration, which included appetizers, lunch, and a tour of the facility. The new warehouse is close to Yara’s liquid terminal at Stockton, which has some 125,000 st of capacity for products such as UAN, CAN-17, and CN 9. “This new addition makes the Port of Stockton a major logistical player for the company’s operations on the West Coast of the U.S., a key market for Yara in which the company started selling its flagship product Calcium Nitrate in 1946,” Yara said. The company first announced that it was building the dry bulk warehouse on Feb. 20, 2008 (GM Feb. 25, 2008), with a total projected cost of US$21 million.
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