CHARLESTON — When a large soybean processing facility in South Carolina suddenly closed last spring, erasing demand for millions of bushels of soybeans from area farmers, SC Ports partnered with the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) and private stakeholders to quickly develop export outlets around the world.

As a result of this collaboration, South Carolina farmers were able to quickly work through the surplus, exporting more than three million bushels of soybeans through the Port of Charleston between May and August.

Soybeans were loaded in shipping containers at grain facilities near the coast and around Inland Port Dillon , which moved more than 2,800 export containers, boosting exports at the facility by 35 percent for the first two months of fiscal year 2026.

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