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A former coal-loading facility is being transformed into one for offloading fertilizer as part of a $14.1 million public/private investment along the Ohio River in Old Shawneetown, Ill. Scates Group Intermodal River Terminal, LLC has agreed to a long-term lease of river frontage, including two existing mooring cells, to the Shawneetown Regional Port District, SGI general manager Patrick Scates said. SGI will invest $3 million, including a barge and material-handling equipment, and will unload the fertilizer at the site, Scates said. A Rebuild Illinois Port Facilities Capital Investment Grant award of $11.2 million will pay for the installation of a 1,200-foot conveyor to adjoining port property, where a 400-by-150-square-foot building for blending and storing 20,000 tons of fertilizer will be built, said Steve Galt, port secretary/treasurer. |