Heniff to develop Ohio terminal for Cargill

Heniff Transportation Systems will develop a sweetener transload facility in Ohio dedicated to serving Cargill Inc. and its customers, Heniff announced Nov. 2. Heniff Food Grade, an affiliate of Heniff Transportation Systems, plans to develop and operate the facility for the consumer packaged goods industry. The terminal will provide transloading, storage and distribution services for Cargill sweetener products. “This is a tremendous opportunity for the Heniff organization,” Heniff founder and CEO Bob Heniff said. “Not only do we get to provide supply chain services to one of the largest food and agricultural companies in the world, we also gain the opportunity to showcase several of our core service offerings that further differentiate us from our competitors.” The terminal will be located outside Jeffersonville, Ohio, between Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati. Construction is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. The area surrounding Jeffersonville, Ohio, near where the terminal will be located. (Google Maps) Heniff expects to provide product storage, rail transloading, bulk trucking and tank wash services at the facility. The terminal will be constructed to handle a large annual volume of sweetener-related products, although the release did not provide a specific capacity. The site will connect to Genesee & Wyoming’s Indiana & Ohio Railway, a Class III short-line railroad with connections to Class I railroads. It also will have access to Interstate 70 and Interstate 71. “The new transload facility will allow us to continue seamlessly and reliably serving customers in the Ohio River Valley,” said Sarah Jelken, Cargill’s managing director of Food North America. “Heniff has proven…

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