Soybeans and soybean meal ports and hubs in North America
35 ports and hubs in North America handle soybeans and soybean meal, across 11 countries: Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and United States. Grades: Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) and Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%).
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Grades
- Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) (34.0% - 36.0%) - Whole raw oilseed imported from Americas for crushing into crude soy oil and protein-rich soymeal.
- Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) (46.0% - 48.0%) - Gold-standard plant protein meal for poultry, piglet, and dairy cow nutritional formulations.
Ports and hubs (35)
| Hub | Country | Type | Grades handled |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manitoba (Winnipeg) Winnipeg Eastern prairie province and historic centre of the Canadian grain trade. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Winnipeg. | Canada | Inland hub Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Montreal Montreal St. Lawrence export port for eastern Canadian grain and for prairie grain transshipped from Great Lakes lakers into ocean vessels. | Canada | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Saskatchewan (Regina) Regina Canada's largest wheat, durum and canola producing province. Prices here are Statistics Canada provincial farm-gate averages, not quotations at Regina. | Canada | Inland hub Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Puerto Caldera (Costa Rica) Caldera Costa Rica's main Pacific port and its main point of entry for cereals, with a dedicated grain berth run by Sociedad Portuaria Granelera de Caldera since 2015. | Costa Rica | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Havana Havana Cuba's largest port. Cuba imports most of its wheat, maize, rice and soymeal; the state milling company has two flour mills in Havana. | Cuba | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Rio Haina (Dominican Republic) Haina The Dominican Republic's main bulk port, west of Santo Domingo. The country imports over 500,000 t of wheat and about 600,000 t of soymeal a year, nearly all its maize, and almost all of it from the US. | Dominican Republic | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Acajutla (El Salvador) Acajutla El Salvador's main port, on the Pacific. Its solid bulk imports are led by maize, soymeal, wheat and rice; the ALCASA terminal stores about 143,000 t in silos and warehouses. | El Salvador | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala) Puerto San Jose Guatemala's Pacific port, where Terminal de Granos del Pacifico (Terpac) receives imported wheat, maize and soymeal for the country and its neighbours. | Guatemala | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Santo Tomas de Castilla (Guatemala) Santo Tomas de Castilla Guatemala's Caribbean port on Amatique Bay, mainly a dry-bulk port for grain and fertiliser, with a small silo terminal. | Guatemala | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Puerto Cortes (Honduras) Puerto Cortes Honduras's Caribbean port, handling about 90% of the country's sea trade, including its wheat, maize and soymeal imports. A dedicated grain terminal is being built. | Honduras | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Altamira Altamira Industrial port in Tamaulipas, one of the main Gulf entry points for US maize, soybeans and wheat into Mexico's north-east. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Port of Manzanillo (Colima) Manzanillo Mexico's largest port by cargo, on the Pacific. Mostly containers, but it also takes a significant share of grain imports for Jalisco and the Bajio feed and milling industries. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Progreso (Yucatan) Progreso Yucatan's port at the end of a long offshore pier; Mexico's second grain import port, feeding the peninsula's poultry and pig industries. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Topolobampo (Sinaloa) Topolobampo Northern Sinaloa port serving one of Mexico's most productive farm zones. Exports wheat, sorghum and soybeans, and is being positioned for sorghum shipments to China. | Mexico | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Port of Veracruz Veracruz Mexico's main grain import port, taking around half of the country's seaborne bulk grain and most of its imported maize by ship, mostly from the US Gulf. | Mexico | Seaport Import | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Port of Corinto (Nicaragua) Corinto Nicaragua's largest port, on the Pacific, with a berth set up for grain and fertiliser. | Nicaragua | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Bahia Las Minas (Panama) Colon Bay east of Colon on the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, with a bulk grain terminal. | Panama | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Cristobal (Colon, Panama) Colon Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal. DEPSA runs the grain terminal at Cristobal, with a silo berth discharging maize and soybeans; soymeal, maize and wheat are Panama's main grain imports. | Panama | Seaport Import | Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%), Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Cedar Rapids One of the largest corn-processing centres in the world, in the heart of the Iowa corn and soybean belt, with Cargill and ADM corn wet-milling and soybean crushing plants. | United States | Inland hub Crushing / transshipment | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Chicago Chicago Delivery point for the Chicago Board of Trade corn, soybean and soft red winter wheat contracts, and the reference market for most North American grain pricing. | United States | Inland hub Inland river | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Decatur (Illinois) Decatur A major soybean crushing and corn processing centre in the Illinois corn belt. | United States | Inland hub Crushing / transshipment | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Fargo (Red River Valley) Fargo Centre of the Red River Valley in North Dakota and Minnesota, the main US region for hard red spring wheat, and a large soybean, maize and barley district. Grain moves by rail to Duluth and the Pacific Northwest. | United States | Inland hub Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Hutchinson (Kansas) Hutchinson Central Kansas terminal market in the hard red winter wheat belt, with large rail terminal elevators (Cargill Hutchinson East handles wheat, maize, sorghum and soybeans). Wheat moves by rail to the Texas Gulf. | United States | Inland hub Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Kalama / Longview (Columbia River) Kalama Deep-draft Columbia River export elevators downstream of Portland, loading corn and soybeans railed from the Midwest alongside Pacific Northwest wheat. | United States | River port Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Kansas City Kansas City The principal cash and futures pricing point for hard red winter wheat, on the Missouri River at the eastern edge of the southern Plains wheat belt. | United States | Inland hub Inland river | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Los Angeles / Long Beach (San Pedro Bay) Long Beach The biggest US ports for containerised grain: together they carry close to half of US waterborne container grain exports, led by DDGS and soybeans bound for Asia. | United States | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Lower Mississippi / New Orleans New Orleans The largest grain export gateway in the United States. River elevators between Baton Rouge and the Gulf load ocean vessels from barges brought down the Mississippi, and carry the bulk of US corn and soybean exports. | United States | River port Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO), Soybean Meal (Hi-Pro 48%) |
| Minneapolis Minneapolis The principal pricing point for hard red spring wheat and durum, and the upper Mississippi barge head for northern Plains grain. | United States | Inland hub Inland river | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Omaha (Nebraska) Omaha Rail and trading centre for Nebraska and western Iowa maize and soybeans, on the Union Pacific main line to the Pacific Northwest and the Gulf; Nebraska is also a leading ethanol and DDGS producer. | United States | Inland hub Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Port of Vancouver USA (Columbia River) Vancouver (WA) Deep-draft Columbia River grain port across from Portland, loading wheat, maize and soybeans that arrive by rail and barge from the Plains and the Pacific Northwest for Asian buyers. | United States | River port Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Portland (Columbia River) Portland Columbia River export elevators and the outlet of the Columbia-Snake barge system. The principal export route for soft white wheat to Asia, with hard red spring and winter wheat, corn and soybeans. | United States | River port Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| St. Louis Harbor (Mississippi) St. Louis Where the Missouri and Illinois rivers meet the Mississippi; the harbor has the highest concentration of grain-barge loading capacity on the US inland waterways. Maize and soybeans go down-river to the Gulf export elevators. | United States | River port Inland river | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Tacoma / Seattle (Puget Sound) Tacoma Puget Sound export terminals shipping Midwest corn and soybeans, brought across by rail, to Asian markets on the shortest US mainland crossing. | United States | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Texas Gulf (Houston) Houston Texas Gulf export elevators on the Houston Ship Channel, loading hard red winter wheat, corn and sorghum drawn from the southern Plains by rail. | United States | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |
| Toledo Toledo Lake Erie grain port handling soft red winter wheat, corn and soybeans from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. | United States | Seaport Export | Soybeans (Non-GMO & GMO) |