Enviva Inc. held a ceremonial ribbon cutting at its recently opened marine export terminal at the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Enviva owns and operates the deep-water marine terminal in the Bayou Casotte Harbor in Jackson County, Mississippi, in partnership with Jackson County Port Authority. Since 2019, the Port Authority and Enviva have invested over $90 million to build the terminal at the Port of Pascagoula which can receive product by rail, barge, and truck as well as support Panamax-sized vessels.
The facility includes two wood pellet storage domes with a total storage capacity of 90,000 metric tons. Enviva plans to export wood pellets, sustainably sourced from local, well-managed working forests, from the now fully operational Port of Pascagoula terminal to power and utility customers across Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean – with a majority of the terminal’s future shipments slated for Japan.
To date, Enviva employs nearly 30 people at the Port of Pascagoula and indirectly supports more than 400 jobs across Jackson, Harrison, and George Counties. The terminal at the Port of Pascagoula serves as the shipment point for Enviva’s newly formed “Pascagoula Cluster” which includes Enviva’s Lucedale, Mississippi plant as well as Enviva’s forthcoming plants in Epes, Alabama and Bond, Mississippi.
Looking ahead, Enviva plans to double its production capacity over the next four to five years, from 6.2 million metric tons per year (MTPY) to approximately 13 million MTPY, further solidifying the Port of Pascagoula, MS, as an operational and geographical asset for decades to come.
Enviva Inc. is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, a renewable and sustainable energy source produced by aggregating a natural resource, wood fiber, and processing it into a transportable form, wood pellets.
