Undersizing is obvious. A terminal runs out of space during peak season and grain backs up at the gate. Oversizing is expensive, capital tied up in steel that sits empty most of the year.
The right storage capacity for a port terminal or inland facility isn’t a round number pulled from a catalogue.
It starts with three questions:
What’s the throughput rate during peak months?
How does seasonal demand actually curve across the year?
Which commodity are we storing? because moisture sensitivity and turnover speed change the calculation entirely.
We start every project brief with this question, because getting it wrong in either direction costs the client money for the lifetime of the installation, not just in year one.
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