Projects

Services Provided:

• Conceptual Options Study and Estimations
• Detail Design and Construction Supervision
• Mechanical
• Structural
• Electrical
• Control & Instrumentation

 

Project Scope:

Detail design and construction supervision of the modification and reconfiguration of two existing ship loaders to suit a revised wharf layout. The 850 tph shiploaders were originally designed to feed onto 35 000t Handymax vessels, but with upgrades at the port, to allow for a deeper draft the revised design allowed for the loading of 80 000t Panamax vessels

 

Features:

• The upgrade consisted of partial removal of the existing legs of the structure and the installation of new bogies and an advanced 33t substructure with a 14 m wheel base between the landside and seaside legs that gave the shiploader an increased vertical lift of 1,32 m and a horizontal seaward shift of 4 m
• A rear 4 m extension allowed for an extended feed conveyor and cable reeling drum to interface with existing equipment.
• The replacement of two 9t ballast boxes with new 21,4t ballast boxes, to ensure there continued stability under all load and wind conditions.
• A new Motor Control Centre (MCC) panel incorporating variable speed drives for the new bogies which was linked to the existing MCC panel; a new support platform was installed and the original timber flooring was replaced with a grating and chequer plate structure.

 

Project Value : R25m

Appointment Date : February 2015

Completion : July 2017