You can load minerals directly from ships to Warehouses (and I think spaceports and starports). Are there any other facilities that can also accept minerals directly from ships?
Is is possible to get a special icon that identifies this on the rules pages for the facilites?
You can load materials directly from ships to warehouses. Just make sure to be over the upper left corner of the warehouse and that the warehouse has its load limits set and all that funky other stuff.
I believe silo's and a few other facilities can be used the same way.