Category: Bulk Handling

Last August we wrote about a new coal facility at Puerto Neuvo in Colombia. Thanks to new video and images you can see the berth in operation.

The vessel shown is the Casta Diva, a 178,000DWT bulk carrier, as she berths alongside Prodeco’s latest direct-loading facility. Prodeco is part of the international mining corporation Glencore Xstrata. Read more…

Here are some new image of the twin QCN cone systems installed at Kerry Siam Seaport, Thailand. We first discussed this installation in August 2012. The new images show the shear chains much more clearly than before, including the custom-designed crossover plates.

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QuayQuip QCL Cell Fenders are hard at work protecting the new Muelle de Carbon (coal port) at Isla Riesco in southern Chile.

Part of a $530 million mining development project aimed at bolstering Chile’s independence from energy imports, the $50 million port at Isla Riesco will ship up to six million tonnes of coal every year from three new mines.

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QuayQuip has carried on its earlier successes in Equatorial Guinea by delivering another three orders in 2012, with a total value of €721,000.

Downstream of Cogo on the Río Muni estuary, Akoniki Wharf took delivery in January 2012 of eight sets of QCN 1300 Cone fender systems fitted with panels 3.7m high by 2.3m wide, and six QPA 800×3000L Arch fenders.

A month later, twenty-seven sets of QPF 2500×4000 Pneumatic fenders were installed at the container quay in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea on Bioko Island.

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When QuayQuip’s design engineers were asked to create Cone Fender systems for Berth 7 at Geraldton, West Australia, they were faced with an interesting challenge.

Berth 7 would be fitted with Cavotec mooring systems. The gap between units along the quay front was too cramped for conventional chain and anchor designs. The concrete shell design of the quay also meant that the ‘cone’ of shear forces must be begin far back into the finished structure: something that even the best conventional anchor systems could not achieve. A novel design was called for.

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Kerry Siam Seaport in Thailand has been extended and equipped with QuayQuip QCN Cone fenders.

The Berth Extension (Phase III) project at Ao Udom, Sriracha in Chonbury Province, has added a 150 metre by 54 metre quay to the north of the existing berth, to serve bulk carriers up to 100,000 DWT and post-Panama container ships.

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In 2011, construction work began on a new coal port at Puerto Neuvo, in the Magdalena region of Colombia. The $60 million project has created a direct loading, multi-user coal port that should be fully operational by early 2013. Puerto Nuevo is expected to handle 30 million tonnes of low sulphur coal, rising to 40 million tonnes within a few years.

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Toward the end of 2010 we featured a radical new floating berth design for London Mining’s iron ore facility in Marampa, Sierra Leone.

QuayQuip’s specialist engineers are now installing and commissioning the berth. In the coming weeks, barges of 20,000 tonne displacement (16,000 tonne DWT) will arrive to begin the transfer of iron ore to ships moored in deeper water.

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The last two years have been busy for QuayQuip at Cape Preston, West Australia. The Sino Iron project, CITIC Pacific’s huge new magnetite extraction and processing facility, has developed rapidly – QuayQuip are proud to have contributed fender systems and structures worth just over $2 million, across many of the berths in its new, purpose-built port.

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QuayQuip has supplied the port of Malabo with QPF Pneumatic fenders. Sited on the coast of Bioko Island, the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo serves general cargo and bulk vessels from 10,000 to 100,000 DWT.

Seventeen sets of 2.5 x 4m QPF Pneumatic Fenders were fitted with catenary chains to allow rise and fall against the face of a new concrete caisson structure.

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