TPT to replace Richards Bay bulk handling ship unloaders
Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has gone out to tender for two electrically driven rail-mounted bulk handling grab-type ship unloaders to replace the existing Caillard grab ship loaders on berths 701 and 702 at the dry bulk terminal in the Port of Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal.
TPT was planning to award the tender for the design, supply, fabrication, erection, installation, testing and commissioning of the unloaders – as well as the training of operational and maintenance staff, and the once-off supply of six four-rope clamshell-type grabs – by April 7, 2014.
The major port equipment was expected to be handed over to TPT around March 2016 after endurance testing had taken place, TPT said, adding that this depended on how swiftly the contractor supplied the machines.
“At this stage, the existing two Caillard grab ship unloaders are awaiting urgent replacement. The unloaders are 14 years old and . . . the replacement of these machines will ensure improved operating efficiencies and productivity,” TPT told Engineering News Online.
The closing date for bids was January 28, 2014.
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