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New Rubb Hall for Sunderland
Asciano put on the
Sunderland City Council in the cargo including steel products of
UK recently completed a new many types.
market - official
cargo storage facility in Hendon Rubb Inc worked with FMT
Docks. This versatile cargo stor- personnel as well as with the Port After months of trying to lure in- ess in response to multiple expres-
age area was required to help con- of Hamilton, which constructed vestors to part-sales of selected busi- sions of interest/proposals from a
tinue the development of the Port the building’s foundation, to de- ness units, Australian ports and rail range of industry and financial
of Sunderland’s cargo handling sign this facility. Since the struc- operator Asciano has succumbed to parties in relation to a variety of
requirements. ture is located on the Great Lakes market pressure and placed the en- potential transactions. “Proposals
Rubb Buildings, in conjunc- and is subject to severe weather, tire group on the market. will be assessed based on deliver-
tion with SGW Construction, wind and snow loads were quite In mid-March the company’s ing the maximum value to all se-
erected a 80ft (24m) x 210ft BVE high and had to meet stringent board announced that advisors curity holders. Asciano’s objective
cargo handling and storage facil- 2005 Canadian Building Code ABN AMRO and Lazard remains to announce a transaction
ity with a 24ft (7.65m) sidewall, standards. Carnegie Wylie had been ap- by the end of the current finan-
with a galvanised steel frame al- From a design and accessory pointed to assist with assessment cial year,” the board said.
lowing the maximum use of avail- standpoint, FMT’s new facility sits of a number of options, including Financial press in Australia have
able storage space. The building atop a poured concrete founda- consideration of the sale of up to named a number of interested par-
also features a partly translucent tion. There are eight personnel 100% of either its Pacific National ties, including the federal govern-
roof to provide a natural balance doors, six, 18ft x 20ft Cookson Coal or Patrick Container Ports ment-backed Australian Future
source of light. roller shutter cargo doors with business, proposals received in re- Fund, private equity firms Texas
Marc Simpson and Robertson electric operators, and a large spect of other assets and businesses Pacific Group/Global Infrastruc-
Simpson Ltd of Newcastle and (45ft x 24ft) custom PVC bi-part- and proposals received in relation ture Partners and Kohlberg Kravis
Sunderland, respectively project
The new Rubb Hall at the Port of Sunderland, UK
ing door system on rails. to transactions “that would result Roberts, Hong Kong’s Hutchison
architects and project managers, Additional accessory items in- in a change of control and/or a Port Holdings, and the “sentimen-
commented that Rubb Buildings and has built a strong reputation
tor Federal Marine Terminals
clude a 20ft candle lighting pack- recapitalisation of the group.” tal favourite,” a joint venture be-
helped them provide “the best in the manufacture of permanent
(FMT) recently purchased and
age and a ventilation system con- Analysts said Asciano had ef- tween the Carlyle Group and
and most cost-efficient answer for and relocatable buildings, offer-
erected a Rubb BVE warehouse
sisting of eight 30,000 CFM ex- fectively “run up the white flag” Kaplan Funds Management. The
Sunderland Council to deliver on ing customised buildings that are
measuring 160ft (48.78m) wide
haust fans with motor activated in attempting to salvage the whole latter’s infrastructure investment
this project.” certified according to ISO
by 500ft(152.4M) long with a
louvres. This Rubb structure in through offloading some parts and fund has former Patrick managing
The Rubb Group has produc- 9001:2000.
sidewall leg height of 23ft (7m).
Hamilton is the second one con- was now simply looking at best director Chris Corrigan as its chair-
tion facilities in Great Britain, In an unrelated move, Port of
This large structure was con-
structed by FMT. The first one was offers. The underlying strength of man and several former Patrick
Norway and the United States Hamilton (Lake Ontario) opera-
structed to store general and bulk
built in Eastport, Maine in 2003. the business - though impacted by executives on its advisory board.
the global financial crisis - is un- Sources say Asciano’s con-
New coal terminal for EMO
deniable, but it remains burdened straints have lead to it missing out
MMC to
by the A$5B debt loaded into on a number of logical bolt-on
Asciano when it was spun off from acquisitions in recent months. The
the Toll Group in June 2007, a di- group has been conserving funds
Rotterdam dry bulk stevedore come smaller and this requires ditional business from third parties.
EMO and the port authority are more space than one big single Piet Govers, Steinweg’s CEO,
negotiating a new 30-hectare deep lot,” a spokesman said. has confirmed that the terminal
sell stake
vestment forced by the Australian to meet existing capital commit-
Competition and Consumer ments, including the expansion/
Commission as a condition of overhaul of its Patrick Brisbane
water concession exclusively for Furthermore, EMO is losing construction will start this sum-
coal transhipment at the some space at its main terminal mer. As the new steel plant has
Maasvlakte. to the coal-fired Electrabel power experienced some delay, the first
in PTP?
Toll’s hostile acquisition of Patrick. and Port Botany container termi-
Asciano said it was extending nals and PN’s entry into the
the scope of its monetisation proc- Queensland coal haulage market.
To be located at the reclaimed plant that will have its own dedi- consignments of slabs are not now
According to local press re-
Hartel strip, the new terminal cated piles. The facility is currently expected before this December.
ports, Malaysian transport and
would sit right opposite EMO’s being built on EMO’s premises, Govers says that the terminal
construction group MMC
35 Mtpa coal and ore terminal on of course as an on site tranship- will be equipped with four quay-
Corp is considering the sale of
the other side of the Mississippi ment and storage client of EMO. side gantry cranes, all previously
a stake in the Port of Tanjung
Basin. Both parties declined to EMO’s new 30-hectare coal deployed at Steinweg’s Uniport
Pelepas (PTP) to China Har-
comment on the status of the ne- terminal would be at the eastern- container terminal in the
bour Engineering Co Ltd
gotiations, but another Rotterdam most section of the new port area. Waalhaven. Two of the cranes are
(CHEC).
dry bulk player said: “It’s a 99% As previously reported, the 12- about 25 years old and are being
MMC has a 70% interest
done deal.” hectare concession to its west was completely overhauled. “Every-
in PTP, with the remainder
The new EMO coal terminal previously awarded to Van Uden thing that moves on the cranes will
held by AP Moller-Maersk. A
would occupy 24 hectares of the Stevedoring (formerly SOM), for be replaced - wheels, bogies, en-
report in the Malaysian weekly
48-hectare rHartel strip, plus six handling minor dry bulk cargoes gines, gearboxes and spreaders, the
The Edge said that the com-
hectares of adjacent existing and project cargoes. Van Uden lot,” said Govers. The work is be-
pany had commenced nego-
Maasvlakte land on the Mississippi plans to open the facility in Janu- ing carried out under Steinweg’s
tiations to sell a 19% stake to
basin’s south bank. ary 2011. The company handles own supervision, with Kalmar In-
the Chinese company.
It would have a 1000m long about 3 Mtpa at its terminal at the dustries in Rotterdam as the main
“It is learnt that talks have
quay with a minimum of 17m Merwehaven in the older part of contractor.
been going on for a while now
water depth alongside. Construc- the port, near the city. The other two cranes were
but no conclusive deal has
The container terminal operations team at the Indian west coast Port of Pipavav,
tion could start as early as this Steinweg’s 12-hectare steel slab supplied by Nelcon (now part of
been reached,” the report said.
operated by APM Terminals, set a new productivity record last month of 120
spring, but is likely to await the terminal will be located at the Kalmar) in 2002 and 2004. These
MMC had previously con-
moves per hour working the MAERSK KOLKATA. Gross berth productivity was
required environmental permit westernmost part of the reclaimed are post-Panamax cranes with a
105 moves per hour using three quayside gantry cranes. Gross crane productivity
firmed that PTP would remain
and approval in the town and land strip and the 500m quay wall 54m outreach and are being fit-
was 40.49 moves per hour and net crane productivity was 41.34 moves per
a subsidiary of MMC follow-
country planning regime for this has already been completed. As also ted with new spreaders to handle
hour. The team was congratulated on the achievement by Prakash Tulsiani,
ing any proposed disposal.
part of the dock. previously reported, it will serve as the slabs.
CEO and managing director of Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd
EMO has made no secret in ThyssenKrupp Stahl’s European
the past about its need for more import base for 2.1 Mtpa of steel
space for coal storage, because of slabs from the joint TKS/CVRD
changed market conditions. “As steel plant in Itaquí, Brazil,
The sideloader specialist
trading is on the rise, coal lots be- but Steinweg is also soliciting ad-
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ternational Terminal Co. deputy general manager for the
Even by stacking boxes five Pusan Port Terminal Union. “The
high and leasing a nearby lot, the problem is going to get worse not
terminal barely has room for the better.”
31,700 containers that have piled On a recent morning, 15 of 18
up on the berths. “We are spend- gantry cranes on one terminal
ing half of what we earn from our were sitting idle because no ves- Hammar Maskin AB, Sweden
main business on storage space,” sels were docked. Six months ago,
Tel: (+46) 33 29 00 00
said Park. the cranes could barely keep up,
Pusan handled 894,172 TEU said Kim. Fax: (+46) 33 29 00 01
in January, the lowest figure since Ships that do dock now carry
E-mail: hammar@hammarmaskin.se
February 2005, according to the only 30% of their capacity, said
Pusan Port Authority. “Things Ryoo Chi Ho at a local shipping Website: www.hammarmaskin.se
have really started to get bad - company. “There are no vessels
dockers spend their entire day arriving or leaving the port fully
waiting for a call from the docks loaded these days.”
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