10,000 tph Dual Linear Loader for Port of Sepetiba, Brazil
Publication: Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Abstract
Ferteco Mineração S.A., the third largest producer of Brazilian iron ore was exporting ore until August of 1999, through other exporters' ports at high railroad and transshipment cost. The feasibility study carried by Soros Associates in 1993, upgraded to a bankable report in 1995, selected a Dual Linear Loader (DLL) as the most economical shiploader to load iron ore in Cape size ore carriers. In compliance with the Brazilian Port Legislation, Ferteco obtained in 1997 a concession to implement and operate, through its subsidiary Companhia Portuaria Baia de Sepetiba (CPBS), an iron ore export terminal within the Bay of Sepetiba, located 80 km. West of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CPBS authorized Soros Associates to carry out the final design of the 10,000 tph DLL, prepare bid packages, interview and recommend manufacturers, supervise fabrication and erection of the DLL until its commissioning, which occurred on September of 1999.
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Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Design (by type)
- Developing countries
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Feasibility studies
- Financial management
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Infrastructure
- Iron (material)
- Linear functions
- Load factors
- Materials engineering
- Mathematical functions
- Mathematics
- Metals (material)
- Methodology (by type)
- Ports and harbors
- Practice and Profession
- Rail transportation
- Research methods (by type)
- Structural design
- Transportation engineering
- Water and water resources
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