Richards Bay Coal Terminal
| Richards Bay Coal Terminal | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | ZA RCB | ||
| owner | Richards Bay Coal Terminal Proprietary Ltd. | ||
| opening | April 1, 1976 | ||
| Port type | Deep sea port | ||
| Daily ship capacity | approx. 2 | ||
| Total area of the port | 2.76 km² | ||
| Piers / quays | 1 | ||
| Goods handled | coal | ||
| Throughput | 91 million t / year | ||
| Main reason for closure | strong winds | ||
| website | http://www.rbct.co.za/ | ||
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| place | Richards Bay | ||
| province | KwaZulu-Natal | ||
| Country | South Africa | ||
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| Coordinates | 28 ° 49 '15 " S , 32 ° 3' 23" O | ||
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The Richards Bay Coal Terminal , abbreviated RBCT , is the coal terminal of the port of Richards Bay in South Africa . The facility is designed to handle 91 million tonnes of coal per year, making it the largest coal port in Africa . The coal is brought to port from the pits in Mpumalanga Province on the Richards Bay Coal Line .
history
After several project studies, Richards Bay in what is now the province of KwaZulu-Natal was determined in 1971 as the ideal location for a deep-sea port for the export of coal from Mpumalanga. In 1976 operations in the port began. At that time, 12 million tons of coal could be exported annually, most of which was bought by the Japanese steel industry. The plant was expanded to today's capacity in five stages.
The RBCT is owned by 14 mining companies, the majority of which include Glencore , Anglo American , BHP Billiton and Exxaro .
technology
The terminal is located on a 276 hectare site, which includes a storage area for 8.2 million tons of coal.
The coal is delivered by 200-car trains that are unloaded with five tandem rotary tippers, which takes less than four hours for a train. The coal is transported to the storage area by a 56 km network of conveyor belts . The belts are 2.2 meters wide and can reach speeds of up to 22 km / h.
The storage area is managed by seven combined depositing and reloading devices , two depositing devices and one reloading device. Each stacker can store up to 5000 tons of coal per hour, and each reloading device can reload up to 4300 tons of coal onto the conveyor belt system.
A 2.2 kilometer long quay with six berths for bulk carriers with a maximum draft of 17.5 m is available for handling the ships . Four ship loaders transport the coal from the belt system into the ships. The two largest can load 10,000 and 12,000 tons per hour, the two smaller each 8500 tons per hour.
The entire terminal is monitored by a 42 m high tower . The higher-level control of the terminal was supplied by Siemens.
Up to 700 ships are handled annually. In 2014, the port's capacity could not be used because the Richards Bay Coal Line could not bring more than 74 million tons of coal to the port.
In 2015 it was announced that the two stackers from the terminal's initial phase would be replaced by two new ones that could deposit 6000 t per hour, and that the two smaller ship loaders would be replaced by those with a capacity of 10,000 t per hour . The systems will be supplied from Sandvik , Austria and should go into operation in 2018. The project costs 1.34 billion rand , the equivalent of 87 million euros.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RBCT Shareholders. In: RBCT. Retrieved October 14, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d What equipment does RBCT use to handle the coal? In: RBCT. Retrieved October 14, 2015 .
- ^ Infrastructure. In: RBCT. Retrieved October 14, 2015 .
- ↑ The largest coal terminal in the world receives a management system from Siemens (press releases). Siemens, July 25, 2007, accessed October 14, 2015 .
- ^ Major upgrade for Richards Bay Coal Terminal. Business Day Live, July 16, 2015, accessed October 13, 2015 .
- ↑ a b RBCT unveils R1.34bn replacement plan. (No longer available online.) In: www.miningmx.com. Archived from the original on August 9, 2015 ; accessed on October 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Paul Burkhardt: Richards Bay Coal Terminal Plans $ 108m Equipment Replacement. In: Bloomberg.com. Retrieved October 17, 2015 .
