USD Group®, or USDG, and our affiliates are engaged in designing, developing, owning and managing large-scale multi-modal logistics centers and energy-related midstream infrastructure across North America. USDG is currently owned by its employees, Energy Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs.
We have historically utilized rail transportation as our competitive platform to provide timely, efficient, flexible and cost-effective midstream infrastructure for our customers to access the most competitive markets. We seek to understand the underlying energy industry dynamics in order to develop logistic solutions and proactively solve the strategic needs of our customers and partners in a sustainable fashion. Our approach includes managing the entire process of designing, financing, constructing, operating and owning a growing North American network of rail terminal facilities and other high quality, complementary infrastructure across the midstream value chain.
We believe that our operating and project development expertise is unparalleled.
We were among the first companies to successfully develop the hydrocarbon-by-rail concept. We have built or operated 14 unit train-capable origination and destination terminals with an aggregate capacity of over 850,000 barrels per day and have safely handled over 170 million barrels of biofuels and liquid hydrocarbons. Our senior management team has an average of over 25 years of experience in the energy, transportation, refining, commodities trading, logistics and financial industries. Additionally, we have an outstanding track record for safety, as evidenced by over a dozen nationally recognized safety awards received in recent years.
