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The M/V
Simon Schulte
docked at a 38-foot-
deep berth while delivering a record 47,500
tons of raw sugar to Baltimore.
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How Sweet It Is – Record-setting
Shipment of Raw Sugar Arrives
T
he largest single shipment of raw
sugar to come to any port east
of the Mississippi River recently
arrived in Baltimore aboard the M/V
Simon Schulte
. The vessel, 600 feet
long with a beam of 100 feet, carried
more than 47,500 tons of sugar from
Guatemala, bound for Domino Sugar at
the Inner Harbor.
The berth at which the
Simon Schulte
docked is 38 feet deep.
“Baltimore has a deeper harbor and
we are able to accommodate these larger
ships,” said Kelly DeAngelo, Process
Manager at the refinery, which is owned
by Domino’s parent company, American
Sugar Refining Inc.
The ship and its record-breaking
cargo arrived on April 9 as the company
was recalling its earlier days, back when
burlap sacks of sugar were unloaded by
hand. “It is especially sweet that we are
one week away from celebrating our 90th
anniversary here as the last manufacturing
facility in the Inner Harbor,” DeAngelo
said at the time. “We have 500 people
working here from two different unions,
contributing $150 million to the city’s
economy.”
At the time of the
Simon Schulte’s
arrival, Dock Superintendent William
Manning estimated that approximately
16 working days would be required to
unload the shipment with the pier’s two
cranes; the bucket of one crane can lift
about 4,500 pounds of sugar.
Last year, the Port of Baltimore
handled about 800,000 tons of sugar,
earning it the No. 1 ranking among U.S.
ports for sugar the second year in a row.
All sugar is unloaded at Domino’s private
marine terminal.
Along with processing sugar
packaged in those familiar yellow and
white bags and boxes found in almost
every Baltimore pantry, Domino also
ships bulk sugar by truck or rail to
operations such as Hershey’s, General
Mills and Kraft Foods.