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Published on: Monday February 18th, 2008
For those facilities without unit train capacity, solutions are quickly being developed.
In Manly, Iowa, a terminaling facility has been constructed that combines ethanol
from surrounding biorefineries, pooling the ethanol and making it ready for unit
train shipments. The facility then organizes loads and sends out the unit trains.
While train shipments are the preferred method of transportation, representing some
two-thirds of all ethanol shipped in the U.S., increased utilization of tanker truck
and barge traffic is also occurring. And, with an eye toward ethanol production
and use five times greater than seen today, the necessary research is being conducted
on the feasibility of an ethanol-dedicated pipeline.
Building the kind of ethanol and biofuels industry in the United States that will
be required to help achieve our energy, economic and environmental goals must be
comprehensive. It will take the continued cooperation of biofuels producers, train,
truck and barge transporters, and the gasoline and oil industry to ensure success.
The good news is that the process is already well under way.
© Ethanol Statistics 2008
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