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More Moormasters for Port Hedland
Global engineer ing group
Cavotec has reorted a new con- tract for its automated mooring technology,
MoorMaster.
Fortescue Metals Group, a lead- ing miner, has ordered 24 MoorMaster units for use at Port Hedland in Western Australia. “This project is among the orders
largest to date for
MoorMaster and illustrates how the ports industry increasingly considers the technology as the most effective way to optimise mooring operations,” said Ottonel Popesco, Cavotec’s CEO. Fortescue Metals Group has 24
ordered MoorMaster
MM200D automated mooring units for the Anderson Point 4 (AP4) berth, the company’s fourth berth at Port Hedland. The units will moor vessels in the 174,000- 206,000dwt range and are de- signed to withstand winds gust up to 30 m/sec. Due to tidal variations, vessels
calling at Anderson have fairly re- stricted sailing “windows” that, if missed, can result in delyas of up
to 8h. The MoorMaster units will ensure mooring times are kept to a minimum and thus optimise operational efficiency. They will also drive down infrastructure costs, adds Cavotec, because four fewer mooring dolphins will be required to hold vessels in place. “This technology is changing
the industry in ways we never thought possible,”
Tony
Swiericzuk, Fortescue’s General Manager, Port Operations at Port Hedland, is quoted. “It’s safer and quicker than conventional moor- ing, and generates substantial in- frastructure savings.” As previously reported, 14 MoorMaster MM200B units are already in operation at Port Hedland’s Utah Point iron ore handling berth and the technol- ogy is being employed at other bulk handling applications in Western Australia. Earlier this year, Karara Min-
ing ordered 12 MoorMaster MM200D units for its dedicated bulk handling facility at the Port of Geraldton. Eight such units are
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Kribi set for growth
A new container terminal is be- ing developed at the Gulf of Guinea
port of Kr ibi, in
Cameroon. Kribi is already the terminus of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline, but the oil terminal had to be constructed several kilo- metres out to sea because of the lack of a natural harbour. However, a new port is being
constructed 30 km south of the oil terminal to handle iron ore ex- ports from the Mbalam mine, and now the government has decided to take advantage of this project to add a new container terminal. As elsewhere in Sub-Saharan
Africa, construction work is be- ing undertaken by Chinese firms as Beijing continues its policy of helping to finance infrastructural projects in return for access to natural resources.
China Harbour Engineering
Company (CHEC) began work on the project in October. Phase 1 will provide handling capacity of 50,000 TEU a year and be ca- pable of serving 40,000 dwt ves- sels, although the ultimate size of the terminal has not yet been de- termined.
The cost of developing the
entire port project is estimated at US$489M. The Export-Import Bank of China will provide 85% of project costs, with the remain- der raised by the government of Cameroon. The container port is expected to be completed in 2014, complementing Cameroon’s ex- isting box terminal at Douala. A multi-purpose terminal, alu- minium smelter and liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant are also planned for the Kribi site.
November 2011
Cavotec has enjoyed considerable success with MoorMaster in Australia ing group Rio Tinto, at
also in the final stages of commis- sioning for Hamersley Iron, a sub- sidiary of Anglo-Australian min-
the
Dampier Fuel Supply Wharf in the Port of Dampier.
Jaxport applying for US$25M TIGER funds
Jacksonville Port Author ity (Jaxport) has applied to the US Department of Transportation for US$25M from the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Discretionary Grant for the construction of a US$45M intermodal container transfer facility (ICTF) at the Dames Point Marine Terminal. The balance of the funding would come from the State of Florida. “Adding an ICTF to Jaxport’s
already superior highway and rail connections will offer even more cost-effective solutions for ship- pers in an industry demanding efficiency and speed,” said Jaxport CEO Paul Anderson. “By taking this opportunity to attract federal investment in North Florida, we can continue to expand our com- petitiveness.”
The planned ICTF, close to the
port’s Blount Island Marine Ter- minal, is predicated on growing cargo volumes at US east coast ports that are expected to result from the expansion of the Panama Canal and increased usage of the Suez Canal. The facility would also better
by an estimated 1.6 mt over the next 30 years. The US DOT plans to award
leverage the fuel efficiency of freight rail and save an estimated US$50M annually in highway maintenance by taking trucks off the road and reducing traffic con- gestion. With reduced truck traf- fic, CO2
emissions could be cut
the TIGER Grants in early 2012. Contingent upon the awarding of funds, the ICTF has a target com- pletion date of the end of 2014.
CARGO HANDLING/PORT NEWS
Round the clock working at QICT
New buoys, beacons and lights in the approach channels and turn- ing basins at DP World’s Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) in Pakistan have ex- panded the facility’s ability to han- dle the current generation of large containerships around the clock. The twin terminals at QICT
can now provide vessels of up to 295m LOA with a 33m beam and a draft of 12m with safe and reli- able navigation 24 hours a day. “We thank the Port Qasim
Authority for its support in facili- tating night navigation for 295m vessels and daylight navigation for 310m vessels. The port authority is also dredging the channel to finally achieve a 14m draft,” said DP World Karachi CEO Changez Niazi.
“The new night navigation systems will enable us to handle more volume and meet our cus- tomers’ demand for cost-efficient, round-the-clock operations in- volving larger vessels,” Niazi said. ● DP World’s global portfolio of container terminals handled gross volumes of 14.4M TEU in the third quarter of 2011, 10% ahead of the corresponding period of last year. Gross volumes for the first nine months of the year were 40.6M TEU, 11% ahead of the prior year period, driven by strong growth in the Asia Pacific, UAE, Africa and Americas regions, as well as new volumes from recently acquired operations in Suriname and additional capacity in Callao, Peru, and Qingdao, China.
Bromma has reported an order for 12 all-electric yard crane spreaders for “service in semi-automated operations in Brisbane and Sydney.” Earlier this year, WorldCargo News reported that Konecranes/TMEIC GE had won an order from Hutchison for an unspecified number of automated stacking cranes for its new terminals in Sydney and Brisbane, in effect “repeating” the award of 36 ASCs to Konecranes/TMEIC GE by Hutchison for Moll Prat, Barcelona (also with Bromma all-electric spreaders, as are the 30 Konecranes ASCs for ADPC, Khalifa). To date, however, Konecranes has still not confirmed the Australian ASC orders, only that it has orders for 12 ASCs with TMEIC drives from “undisclosed customers” (see last month’s yard crane survey p44)
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