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LAHGT originated in 1958 with the founding
of Mortimer & Wallace by Richard B. Mortimer and
Howard L. Wallace. The two
men put together their years of experience in the rendering industry and
established an export facility for animal fats and vegetable oils at
Berth 174 in the Port of Los Angeles.
n the early 60s, part of the facility was converted into an
export grain elevator (right). This enterprise was
called the Los Angeles Harbor Grain Terminal. For three
decades the combined operations loaded hundreds of ships with
cargos of grain, alfalfa pellets, cottonseed meal, safflower
seed, beef tallow, lard and cottonseed oil. With the advent of
containerization in the late 60’s the company converted some
operations into container loading and facilitated the shipping
of various livestock feeds and agricultural products to Pacific
rim countries in ocean going containers. This service became
known as transloading.
Then in the late 80’s the need for loading ships with grain and feed in
the Port of Los Angeles diminished and we needed a new facility with
more rail trackage for the growing transloading business so we moved to
our current location on Sepulveda where we have a two acre facility with
two miles of railroad track which gives us the ability to store up to
seventy-five railcars. Today we operate three facilities in the Port of
Los Angeles and continue to meet the needs of American agribusiness and
our country’s expanding trade with Pacific rim countries.
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