Delivery, bringing it ashore.
Berth, jetty and import handling at the destination port, taking ship cargo and landing it for storage. Sized on a real transaction anchor, and detachable as a standalone terminal serving multiple origins.
The point of arrival.
This node is the physical interface where a ship becomes shore-side inventory: the berth it ties up to, the jetty and unloading arms, and the handling infrastructure that moves the molecule off the vessel. It takes a cargo at the destination and lands it, ready to be held in the storage node that follows.
This is the node with the firmest cost basis in the whole chain. Its figure is anchored to a real transaction, the OCI Rotterdam terminal expansion, rather than a derived coefficient. And it is the most obviously detachable: an import terminal does not care where its cargoes come from. A terminal operator can build this node once and serve many origins, which is exactly the kind of independent infrastructure play the chain is designed to expose.
What drives the node.
| Parameter | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia throughput | 150 kT/yr | From the transport node M |
| Terminal cost basis | $25k per kt/yr | OCI Rotterdam expansion, 2022 FID P |
| Ammonia handling | $3.75M | 150 kt/yr × $25k/kt P |
| Shared berth / jetty | $18M | Screening estimate, shared interface E |
What the node produces.
| CAPEX line | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia terminal / handling | 150 kt/yr × $25k/kt | $3.75M |
| Shared berth / jetty interface | screening estimate | $18.00M |
| Delivery node CAPEX | $21.75M |
The terminal does not care where cargo comes from.
Most of the chain's nodes are corridor-specific in their economics. This one is not. A berth and unloading arms handle a molecule the same way regardless of which origin shipped it, which makes the delivery node the natural point to build shared, multi-origin infrastructure.
The delivery node is the strongest standalone infrastructure play in the chain. Its cost is anchored to a real transaction rather than a coefficient, and its independence is structural: an import terminal serving several corridors spreads its $18M berth cost across more throughput than any single origin provides. A terminal operator taking this node connects upstream to anyone's transport and downstream to anyone's storage, which is precisely the consolidation a destination-side developer would pursue.
Where the numbers come from.
Terminal cost ($25k per kt/yr throughput): derived from OCI's Rotterdam ammonia terminal expansion, $20M for an additional 800 kt/yr of throughput capacity, FID 2022. This is the chain's firmest anchor, a real transaction rather than an estimate.
Berth / jetty ($18M): screening estimate for the shared unloading interface, pending a site-specific quote. Triangulated against the Agrofert Rotterdam terminal (€290M for a 30-90 kt facility), our smaller dedicated berth sits well below that scale.
Traces to the Corridor Module (Sim 4). The terminal handling figure is project-grade; the berth is an estimate. Screening-stage, modelled.
How this node stands alone.
The node's interface is a ship cargo in, landed tonnes out. Neither side is corridor-specific, which is what lets one terminal serve many origins and feed many storage operators.