Hooker Point Terminal, Florida

Mosaic uses facilities at the port to receive and store the large amounts of anhydrous ammonia it needs to make phosphoric acid and other products at its production plants. One of these is the Hookers Point Terminal, acquired from CF Industries, with a 38,500-ton ammonia storage tank and a deep water dock. The terminal is connected to a 75-mile underground pipeline system that delivers ammonia to the Riverside Plant, and to the other plants in the Bone Valley. Ammonia is normally a gas, so it is kept pressurized in order to condense into liquid form for storage and transport. Around 2 million tons of ammonia comes into the Port of Tampa in this form every year, to feed Mosaic’s phosphate fertilizer production in the Bone Valley, the largest in the nation. The ammonia comes by tanker ship, from Mosaic’s Faustina plant, its ammonia production facility at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, as well as other nitrate companies, like CF Industries.