At one time the facility included 90 grain silos, a small mill, the head house for loading grain onto barges and train cars, and the sack house for sacking milled flour.
Edithburgh has a jetty which, like many others on Yorke Peninsula, was once used to load grain and unload supplies for the town, but is now used mostly for recreational fishing and is a popular scuba diving site.
Pamir was returned to the Erikson Line on 12 November 1948 at Wellington and sailed to Port Victoria on Spencer Gulf to load Australian grain.
For loading grain and coal, electric cranes and two grain elevators were fixed on the quay.
Used to efficiently load grain into railroad cars, grain elevators came to be clustered in "lines" and their ownership tended to concentrate in the hands of increasingly fewer companies, many controlled by Americans.
The new jetty currently services ships loading dolomite, grain and salt from the solar salt pans at Price, approximately 10 km (6 mi) north.
As another two basins were only meant to be built after the end of the war and would not have been used for loading and unloading grain, Otto Broschek felt that this was an exaggeration.
They then sailed onto Melbourne or Sydney where they loaded wool or grain, generally for London.
The mariners were reassigned to load grain on barges of the Grand Canal and to build the emperor's mausoleum.
The first sighting of the Asian gypsy moth was in 1981, Dr. Wallner said, when egg masses were found on Russian ships loading grain in Vancouver, British Columbia.