# Louis Dreyfus Company inaugurates new terminal  in West Memphis, Arkansas

> Louis Dreyfus Company inaugurated a truck-to-barge facility in West Memphis, Arkansas on March 6. The 800,000-bushel terminal on the Mississippi River receives, stores and ships corn and soybeans from the region.

- Date: 2017-03-06 · published 2017-03-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71894-louis-dreyfus-company-inaugurates-new-terminal-in-west-memphis-arkansas
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

The new terminal adds local origination and river-loading capacity, which can support regional basis and speed corn and soybean movement to Gulf export channels.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral
- CORN: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2017-03-07 | [Louis Dreyfus Company opens new grain terminal \| World-grain.com \| March 07, 2017 13:42 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71889-louis-dreyfus-company-opens-new-grain-terminal-world-grain-com-march-07-2017-13.md) | -2.2% | -0.2% |
| CORN | 2021-07-19 | [New grain terminal opens on “Ag Coast of America”](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45962-new-grain-terminal-opens-on-ag-coast-of-america.md) | -1.1% | +0.0% |
| CORN | 2021-07-19 | [New Terminal Expands Grain Handling Capacity for Ag Coast \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45963-new-terminal-expands-grain-handling-capacity-for-ag-coast-feed-and-grain.md) | -1.1% | +0.0% |
| CORN | 2017-04-06 | [IFC loan to support new grain terminal at Black Sea port \| World-grain.com \| April 06, 2017 13:39 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71357-ifc-loan-to-support-new-grain-terminal-at-black-sea-port-world-grain-com-april.md) | +0.6% | -0.3% |
| CORN | 2023-02-13 | [Record setting dredging season comes to an end > St. Louis District > News Stories](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16649-record-setting-dredging-season-comes-to-an-end-st-louis-district-news-stories.md) | -1.3% | -6.3% |
| SOY | 2017-03-07 | [Louis Dreyfus Company opens new grain terminal \| World-grain.com \| March 07, 2017 13:42 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71889-louis-dreyfus-company-opens-new-grain-terminal-world-grain-com-march-07-2017-13.md) | -3.0% | -8.6% |
| SOY | 2023-02-13 | [Record setting dredging season comes to an end > St. Louis District > News Stories](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16649-record-setting-dredging-season-comes-to-an-end-st-louis-district-news-stories.md) | -1.0% | -2.8% |
| SOY | 2018-04-23 | [SIMCO Grain Terminal Progresses Near New Bridge Site - The Waterways Journal](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65380-simco-grain-terminal-progresses-near-new-bridge-site-the-waterways-journal.md) | +1.6% | -2.9% |

## Sources

- agupdate.com: https://agupdate.com/news/companies/article_cb15a1ec-02a5-11e7-a35d-af8e443db4c0.html

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