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In 2019–20, the terminal shipped 6.2 million tonnes (14 billion pounds) of grain, 30 thousand tonnes (66 million pounds) below its all-time shipping record which it set in 2016–17. The facility can receive up to 4 thousand tonnes per hour (2,400 pounds per second) of grain by
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