LP Gas, May 2010
storage turnover rate of 143 times each year Thats a slight improvement from the 147 rate found in a similar Purvin Gertz study in 2000 The problem is that almost 30 percent of companies report more than 20 turns a year More than 13 percent turn storage more than 30 times annually The higher frequency of turns adds stress to the infrastructure to deliver product in tighter windows explains Whitley Most of the companies in the highturnover class are the same companies waiting in line at the pipeline terminals holding up others he says New England is particularly vulnerable due to high storage turnover rates lack of Canadian railcar imports in winter distance from producing areas and its total lack of domestic production facilities Even the Lower Atlantic region which has a much greater supwww Continued on page 28 I N F R A S T R U C T U R E ANNUAL STORAGE TURNOVER BY SALES VOLUME CLASSIFICATION Southwest Sales Center Danny McElroy 1 800 483 9971 Purvin Gertz Inc LPGasmagazine com May 2010 LPGas 27
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