The Brewers Sugar Company Ltd took over the Berryyards Refinery from Alex Scott & Sons abt 1896, and later became the Westburn Sugar Refineries of Tate & Lyle. Ironically, Abram Lyle had moved his production from Greenock to Silvertown after the Greenock Harbour Trust had refused to provide an exclusive discharging point for raw sugar.

With the arrival of raw cane sugar dependent on foreign production, shipping, weather etc, The Brewers Sugar Co Ltd found it necessary to store surplus stock in the warehousing and sheds provided by the Harbour Trust Board on the quayside at Greenock. For this they were charged one penny per ton per week, and the above record shows that Brewers Sugar Co, on 25 Feb 1905, paid £30 19s 11d for storage, mainly in Sheds 10-13 from Oct to Dec 1904 but also in Shed 2 from Apr 1904 ... 7439 pence represents a lot of sugar, and part of it had already been heavily discounted.
This sugar came from various parts, and the details of the ships, quantities and storage follows ....

To rent on 500 bags Sugar ex "Brilliant" @ Dunkirk.

To rent on 758 bags & 325 blocks Sugar ex "Clifford" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 1564 bags Sugar ex "Gertrude" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 1259 bags Sugar ex "Rose" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 1466 bags Sugar ex "Merrick" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 758 bags Flour (!!) ex "Rose" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 3603 bags Sugar ex "Monlank" @ Peru.

To rent on 1015 basses Sugar ex "Sierra Luceua" @ Mauritius.

To rent on 2045 bags & 907 blocks Sugar ex "Olive Branch" @ Peru.

To rent on 4250 bags Sugar ex "Concovada" @ Peru.

To rent on 545 bags Sugar ex "Gorilla" @ Liverpool.

To rent on 450 bags Sugar ex "The Countess" @ Dunkirk.

To rent on 651 bags Sugar ex "Gertrude" @ Liverpool.

... and ...

To rent on 702 bags Refined Sugar warehoused in No.2.

[Storage was charged per week or part of a week ... stock was removed from storage, often daily, in much smaller quantities than the weekly tonnages shown above.]