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GE delivers turnkey project, upgrades the Tiplam at Port of Santos


GE Energy Connections has recently successfully delivered the full turnkey project to VLI for engineering, supply and commissioning of the port terminal Luiz Antonio Mesquita Integrator Port Terminal (Tiplam) at the Port of Santos in São Paulo, Brazil. GE’s integrated electrical solutions provided a one-stop solution for the customer’s electrification, power generation and control needs. Brazil’s economy relies


heavily on exports of natural resources-based products. Improvement in its port’s infrastructure will therefore bring substantial economic growth opportunities to the


country. The government understands its significance and has put out ambitious plans to invest up to $9.7 billion for the new phase of port concessions. The Port of Santos has been historically one of the largest and busiest ports


in


Latin America. GE’s Power Conversion has delivered its full scope of work including a main and a complementary substation, 10 e-houses and electrical and automation systems that provide power generation and control to the Tiplam terminal at the port. Certain equipment was manufactured in Betim, Brazil, meeting the local content


Mining cargo to the Andes in record time


Antonov Airlines safely transported two mining filtration units for Hunt & Palmer Cargo Charters from Santiago, Chile to Mendoza, Argentina in one of its seven AN-124-100 aircraſt, in 39 minutes. The cargo, which weighed 24 tonnes, was urgently needed aſter adverse weather in the region closed the roads. The consignment included two


large industrial piping filtration units, measuring 12 meters long,


four meters wide, and


approximately 3.6 meters high. “The flight was needed as the


road conditions in the region were


too hazardous due to


adverse weather. The end user could not risk transporting the cargo by road,” said Dan Litten, Aircraſt Charter Broker, Hunt


requirement. After the successful


commissioning managed by GE, the port terminal has seen substantial improvement in its efficiency of cargo loading, discharging and stowing. For example, the time for a cargo to wait and load goods has shortened from five days to only 24 hours at the terminal, saving significant cost of docking. “With the upgraded service conclusion,


drawing to capacity the


Tiplam terminal will have an expanded


of


14.5 million tons of goods per annum. Working with technology partners such as GE, we are transforming the future


& Palmer Cargo Charters. “We worked closely with ANTONOV Airlines to get the permits issued for the aircraſt to fly at such short notice. The flight was confirmed late on Wednesday, and operated on Saturday. The AN-124-100 was the only aircraſt that could accommodate our cargo. It is incredible that the flight took only 39 minutes.” The AN-124-100 on-board crane


system, which has a maximum liſt capacity of 20 tonnes, allowed for safe loading and unloading of the cargo. ANTONOV carries an adaptor


on-board each of its aircraſt, extending the liſt capacity of its system by 10 tonnes to a total of 30 tonnes.


of port transport, bringing more efficiency to our customers,” said Alessandro Gama, terminal general manager at VLI. As an initiative to digitize


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the port infrastructure, GE has also provided a customized software to optimize vessels’ traffic management, further improving transport efficiencies. The software provides an overview of fleet activities at the harbor, bringing each individual vessel in line with the fleet’s requirement regarding time needed for loading goods and shortening or eliminating queues at the terminal. “The future of transport has


come across the pivoting point to unlock more efficiencies


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and productivity, and that is enabled by electrification and digitization. Both technologies are bringing multifaceted benefits to reduce costs as well as to optimize transporting management,” said Mohammed Azeez, president & CEO, GE’s Power Conversion. “The port terminal has been successfully commissioned and has been in operation reliably. We are convinced that the improved port infrastructure will bring great impact to the country’s economy, and we are delighted to be part of it.”


One of GE’s e-houses that provides power generation and control to the Tiplam terminal at the port.


Falcon 9 Rocket Booster Returns to Port Canaveral


Port Canaveral welcomed back a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster on June 29th after its successful June 23 launch and landing aboard the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You. This was the most challenging launch for the 229-foot-tall rocket to date.


1st transshipment hub for India


India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) is building a deepwater, multi- cargo container port at Vizhinjam with the support of the government of Kerala. APSEZ


has been awarded the tender for building the port superstructure and its operations for 40 years. Located near waterways in


Kerala to create India’s first a global transshipment hub, the


port will have markets such as 1 million TEUs of Indian cargo currently transshipped through foreign ports, including Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is sited on international routes leading to Europe, the Persian Gulf and the Far East, and is within 10 nautical miles of the east-west shipping axis.


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