Bulk
MTC has the experience of working with all types of systems, ensuring our customers maximum success and profitability.

Dry bulk cargo comes in many forms and involves a variety of products: cement powder, raw and granular sugar, fertilizer, petroleum coke, soda ash, agricultural grains, scrap metal, ore concentrates, silica manganese and even grinding balls. Through the years, MTC has handled it all.

We have poured it, scooped it, clammed it, grabbed it, rotated it out of a container (RoCon), and vacuumed it. We have picked it up with a huge magnet attached to a mobile crane, moved it by conveyor, through a hopper, with a backhoe, an auger Siwertell continuous shipunloader, by a Kovako pneumatic unloader and via other specialized systems.

Up and down the U.S. West Coast, MTC has mastered the various methods of loading and unloading bulk cargo from proven technology to the latest auger technology.

Pneumatic unloaders with closed conveyor systems are streamlining the process and replacing many grab operations. Suction and compression systems have moved the industry forward and addressed increasingly stringent environmental concerns over dust and noise generation. The Fuller Kovako, equipment that acts like a giant vacuum cleaner, and some continuous mechanical unloaders, like the auger-technology, utilize enclosed conveyor line systems, aimed at reducing dust and noise.

MTC loads export grain in the ports of Vancouver and Kalama in Washington and in Portland, Oregon.

And as with other materials and products, Marine Terminals Corporation has participated in customer partnerships to fabricate equipment to move their cargo faster and safer and will continue that tradition for the benefit of our customers and their customers.