A continuing requirement for livestock feed in the US, especially in the west of the country, is seeing large quantities of foreign cotton seed being landed at Pacific coast ports.
As this is a relatively new commodity for these ports, operators are having to adopt new handling and storage procedures. After a period of "trial and error," most ports are now using orange peel-type grabs to discharge the seed, using ship's gear to place it into mobile hoppers for onward feed either to an open storage pad or into an enclosed warehouse....
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Approx 384 words from Bulk Materials International, September/October 2000,
page 24.
