Grain loading from Truck to Barge
In Colombia, the Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Barranquilla (SPRB), which operates the Port of Barranquilla, has acquired a new barge-loader from Telestack.
Carl Donnelly, the sales manager overseeing the contract, notes that, at the port, imported grain is brought in by Handymax vessels, with consignments initially unloaded directly into hoppers and then stored in warehouses on the quayside. For onward transport, the grain is again loaded onto trucks, which is loaded on ‘Impala’ barges for transport up the Magdalena river to end users further inland.
