• Ethanol Marketer Solutions
• Refiner & End-User Solutions
• Ethanol Trader Solutions
• Ethanol Producer Solutions

Ethanol Marketer Solutions

In the highly competitive world of ethanol marketing, can you afford not to direct your producers' volumes through the most efficient supply chain option available? Manly Terminal provides marketers with exceptional ethanol storage and transportation services. We will deliver improved supply chain efficiencies and expanded market access for the ethanol gallons that you manage.

Manly Terminal offers ethanol marketers the following strategic advantages:

• Expanded Market Access - Iowa Northern Railway Company is adjacent to the Manly Terminal and interconnects with all of the major rail systems throughout the United States – giving customers rail service to every market in North America. With multiple rail connections, the Manly Terminal leverages the various combinations of freight rates to insure that ethanol customers are getting the lowest possible rate to the best possible market.
  
• Timely Utilization of Unit Trains - Our ability to concentrate and store a large quantity of ethanol from multiple producers allows you to capitalize on the cost savings of unit train access. Prior to this centralization of a storage and rail facility, unit train builds took days to accomplish. Now it is done in hours!
  
• More Turns on Rail Assets - A key component to overall cost efficiencies for the marketer becomes overall transit times on rail assets. By building timely unit trains and utilizing a local rail system that interconnects with the major carriers, turn times can be significantly reduced.
• Ability to Better Manage Assets - Manly Terminal intends to join with one or more car leasing companies to maintain a revolving inventory of tank cars to efficiently manage increases in production at favorable market prices.
  
• Manage Market Fluctuations - Manly Terminal also provides sufficient storage which allows ethanol marketers to capitalize on price fluctuations in order to improve their margins.
  
• Freight Savings - As part of the Manly Terminal alliance, long-term contracts with locally operated trucking and rail services will afford low-cost, continuous cycles to and from Manly Terminal. These “wholesale” freight services will allow the industry to enjoy the low-cost access to a common delivery point for trading and exchange and still have the flexibility to play the most profitable consumption markets on a real time basis.
• Single Rate Logistics - By combining the various services of the partner companies, KAG Ethanol Logistics will provide the most cost effective, door-to-door delivery solution to the ethanol industry. This means one invoice, one rate and no excessive paperwork.