Port Pipavav commissions environment-friendly coal yard
Port Pipavav in Gujarat, India's first in the private sector, has recently commissioned a state-of-the-art environmentally-responsive coal-handling facility.
By PTI |
MUMBAI: Port Pipavav in Gujarat, India's first in the private sector, has recently commissioned a state-of-the-art environmentally-responsive coal-handling facility.
It is capable of storing nearly 2,50,000 MT of coal, a press release issued here on Friday stated.
The newly-designed coal yard ensures that coal can be handled and stored efficiently and safely, without adverse impact on any other cargo.
"At Port Pipavav, we handle substantial amounts of fertiliser and cotton. It is critical to ensure that these and other sensitive cargo types are not contaminated by coal dust at the port," Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd's Chief Commercial Officer, Ashley Dinning, said in the release.
The new coal facility includes an integrated system of two electric level luffing cranes and a mobile conveyor system leading to the coal yard. The main conveyor system is designed to handle coal to be unloaded from ship and stacked in the coal yard.
It is 1.2-kilometre-long and divided into three segments with two travelling trippers in stack yard. The conveyor system has a rated handling capacity of 2,000 tonnes per hour.
"The most striking feature of the facility is a well-planned and designed coal yard, which prevents and controls the coal dust from escaping the yard thus avoiding contamination to any other cargo type," Dinning said.
"The most striking feature of the facility is a well-planned and designed coal yard, which prevents and controls the coal dust from escaping the yard thus avoiding contamination to any other cargo type," Dinning said.
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