INLAND/INTERMODAL/HAZCHEM NEWS
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New tank car rule
Enfield terminal moves on
age areas, warehouse distribution areas of
52,500 m
2
floor area and 4 hectares of
light industrial/commercial areas.
The US Department of Transportation logical and manufacturing advancements.
Sydney’s long-awaited Enfield suburban SPC chief executive Grant Gilfillan said a71 Connell Hatch has been appointed
(DOT) has published a final rule aimed Adoption of these interim design stand-
port has taken a major step forward with the specialised design would contribute to complete a federally-funded study
at improving the crashworthiness of rail ards will ensure the ongoing availability
the appointment by Sydney Ports Cor- towards the New South Wales Govern- into the viability of completing an al-
tank cars used to transport poison inha- of PIH tank cars with improved safety
poration (SPC) of design consultants for ment’s objective to achieve a 40% rail mode ternative freight rail line into Port
lation hazard (PIH) materials like chlo- while DOT completes longer-term re-
the A$150M project. share of containers to and from Port Botany. Kembla, abandoned 20 years ago. The
rine and anhydrous ammonia. search, testing, and validation of advanced
Maunsell has been selected to pro- “This will occur through the delivery project began in 1983 and was intended
The new rule requires PIH tank cars tank car designs for a more stringent per-
vide design and technical services ad- of additional intermodal capacity within to improve access for coal trains into
to have better puncture resistance from a formance-based standard to further in-
vice for the intermodal logistics centre, close proximity of a significant freight Port Kembla, based on an expected coal
side impact with a combination of thicker crease hazmat tank car crashworthiness.
which SPC says is currently the largest catchment area within the Sydney met- boom of 30 mtpa in the Maldon area.
inner shells where the hazardous mate- The final rule was issued by the DOT
planned facility of its kind in Australia. ropolitan area,” he said. “Our first major But this did not eventualise and the
rial is held and/or thicker outer jackets Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Due to be completed in 2011, Enfield task is to complete the design and then partly-built railway was abandoned fol-
depending on the specific chemical be- Administration in close consultation with
will become part of an integrated net- to call tenders for the construction of the lowing a change of state government
ing transported. the Federal Railroad Administration fol-
work of existing and planned inter- base infrastructure for the site.” five years later. The new three-month
In addition, each end of the tank car lowing a review of virtually all aspects of
modal facilities in greater Sydney and The base infrastructure works will ca- study will examine the condition of the
is required to be protected with a full head rail tank car safety. It applies to all PIH
is seen as integral to the efficient run- ter for a new 12-hectare intermodal ter- existing track, including any remedial
shield where not already mandated by tank cars built on or after March 16, 2009.
ning of an expanded Port Botany. minal, 8 hectares of empty container stor- works which might be needed.
existing regulations and strengthened
valves, top fittings and nozzles used to load
and unload the tank car are required to
prevent a release in a rollover accident.
The new rule imposes a 50 mph maxi-
mum speed restriction on all loaded PIH
tank cars and allows for an increase in the
gross weight of the tank car to accom-
modate the enhanced safety measures. It
also requires tank car owners to prioritise
the retirement or replacement of older
tank cars used in PIH service, which were
built prior to 1989 with non-normalised
steel that may not adequately resist the
development of fractures.
US Transportation Secretary Mary E
Peters said the final rule provides an in-
crease in safety over existing rail hazmat
tank car designs pending further techno-
InterBulk to
build hub in
Duisburg
Bulk logistics service provider InterBulk
is to build a new intermodal terminal on
a 20,000 m
2
site in the Port of Duisburg.
The new facility will be the group’s larg-
est terminal to date.
Aimed at customers in the chemical,
food and mineral industries, the new ter-
minal will be twice as large as other simi-
lar facilities operated by the company, with
the capacity to process around 25,000
containers/year. Operations are scheduled
to start in the second quarter of this year.
Cargo will be delivered and collected
by train, truck and barge from the neigh-
bouring DUSS and DeCeTe terminals. Up
to three platforms will be provided for the
transfer of dry bulk cargoes to and from
containers, railcar hoppers and silo trucks.
The new terminal will also offer
value-added services such as packaging,
debagging and warehousing.
“Through this strategic initiative we
aim to provide our customers with a high
quality and cost effective solution to re-
ceive, transfer and store containerised dry-
and liquid bulk products,” said InterBulk
Group CEO Koert van Wissen.
Hoyer grows
in Ireland
Hoyer Ireland, part of the Hoyer Group,
has taken over Irish tank container op-
erator SCL Transport Ltd from South
Coast Transport Group. Terms of the deal
were not disclosed.
“The acquisition of SCL Transport
optimises our network, improves the uti-
lisation of transport lanes from and to Ire-
land and the UK and fits perfectly into
the structure of the Hoyer Group,” said
Hoyer CEO Ortwin Nast.
The transaction, which took effect on
January 5, includes the acquisition of the
entire ISO tank and dry freight container
business of South Coast Transport, which
includes a fleet of around 350 tanks. The
existing employees have been retained
and business will continue unchanged.
Other parts of South Coast Transport’s
business, including road tanker and tank
cleaning and repair operations, are unaf-
fected by the sale.
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