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Supply chain challenges are already slowing down the transport of products, raising costs, and could prevent the industry from realizing the full benefits of increased capacity, supply chain professionals told Petrochemical Update.The Transloading Facility would facilitate loading NGL from the pipeline onto railcars for shipment out of the region to processing facilities and end-use markets.Įach skid is built to meet or exceed the requirements of the latest edition of NFPA pamphlets 58 & 59 and API2510 and are ready to be put into. “This is a result of demand increasing and carriers being behind on beefing up resources.” “The top challenges facing the petrochemical supply chain are…getting on time deliveries because of transit time increases,” said Rick Lissa, Senior Director of Logistics Management, Formosa Plastics. Unless resolved, logistics shortcomings across primary modes of transportation including truck, rail, and marine container will greatly affect the chemical industry and its customers, industry agencies warn. Potential impact could be excess inventories, increased capital expenditures of up to $23 billion for equipment and infrastructure to handle increased congestion and delays. In addition, owners could expect higher operating costs of up to $29 billion over a 10-year period due to logistical inefficiencies, according to a 2017 report by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC). “Most of the top challenges in the petrochemical supply chain are geared around the added capacity and lack of trucking and infrastructure to get the extra product to customers,” Bruce Sullivan, Director of Logistics, Strategy & Procurement at Covestro told Petrochemical Update. There is a truck shortage on capacity that has hindered the ability to get product to customers,” Sullivan said. “There really is a demographic issue within the trucking community. There is not a lot of truckers coming into the marketplace.”

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The average age of a truck driver in the U.S. at 49, is seven years older than the average American worker, according to the American Trucking Association (ATA).

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The truck industry is facing a record labor shortage with more than 60,000 drivers needed now to meet demand. If current trends hold, the shortage could swell to over 174,000 by 2026, the ATA said in a 2017 report. The lack of available drivers is causing a bottleneck in the supply chain, leading to delayed deliveries and increased prices. “We know that as freight demand continues to rise, demand for drivers to move those goods will also rise, which often results in more driver churn or turnover,” Bob Costello, President of the ATA said in a statement. “Finding enough qualified drivers remains a tremendous challenge for the trucking industry and one that if not solved will threaten the entire supply chain.” NGL TRANSLOADER MARKETPLACE DRIVER

Increased production volumes will require an additional 1.8 million shipments New petrochemical capacity is projected to result in an additional 1.8 million annual shipments by 2020 across all modes of transportation, adding an additional 270,000 railcars, 723,000 truck FTLs, and 808,000 marine TEUs each year, according to the ACC and PwC analysis. Petrochemical supply chain professionals did make plans to prepare for shipping the added capacity when capital plans were being laid, but what they couldn’t plan for was the increases in demand on the retail side from companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart.

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