Bulk sugar import facility set for Port of San Diego’s Tenth Avenue terminal

A new facility may be coming to the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal – solely focused on something sweet.

Raw sugar, up to 280,000 metric tons a year, is expected to be imported to the Port of San Diego’s planned storage facilities. And for the first time at the port, electric trucks will transport the sugar.

The port’s Board of Commissioners recently approved the agreements necessary to begin planning the sustainable project with Mexico’s Zucarmex, as long as California Sugar Equipment, LLC, fulfills terms of an option-to-lease agreement within 18 months…

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