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New contracts for Schenck Process in the United Kingdom and JordanSchenck Process has secured two major contracts for Redler mechanical convey-ing equipment for use in ports in United Kingdom and Jordan.

The contract in Liverpool, United Kingdom is for Peel Ports and is an exten-sion to the animal feed storage facility valued at several million pounds. Schenck Process is acting as the M&E contractor for the bulk materials handling equipment and this will be interfacing with the existing system and supplying new high capacity 800t/ph chain conveyors, a long high level belt conveyor plus a MaxiStore and reversing shuttle con-veyor complete with the site wiring, controls, installation and commissioning.

The project in Jordan is for the new grain terminal at the Port of Aqaba in Jordan. The contract valued at £4 million is a significant award with this being the third grain silo project secured in the past 12 months within the Middle East region. The order is for five packages including the chain conveyors, belt conveyors, belt and bucket elevators, magnetic separators and bulk weigh scales with other business opportunities available within the project for Schenck Process.

Noise reduction project finally given green light in VancouverHaving received the necessary project

permits from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA), Canada, Cargill can now move forward with its noise mitigation project, first announced in April 2012.

The multi-phase project supports efforts to reduce noise impact levels caused by Cargill’s grain terminal located on Vancouver’s North Shore and will consist of the installa-tion of two fan exhaust silencers, eight dust collector silencers as well as sound absorbing barriers along the north side of the facility. The project also includes the re-distribution of ventilation fans to reduce noise levels for the nearest residences.

“We are looking forward to moving on to the next phase of this project”, said Gerry Dickie, general manager at Cargill’s North Vancouver grain terminal. “We understand the positive impact that these improvements to our facility will have on reducing the noise levels experienced by the surrounding com-munity, and we are thankful to the VFPA for approving our plans.”

“We are very pleased to be supporting Cargill as it invests in its operations and the community through the noise mitigation project,” said Duncan Wilson, vice president of corporate social responsibility at Port Metro Vancouver. “Together with our ten-ants, terminals and partners in industry we continually coordinate investments to preserve the quality of life that communities have grown to expect in the busy and grow-ing region of the Lower Mainland.”

Record grain exports at Melbourne Port TerminalFebruary 2013 was a bumper month for grain exports at Emerald Grain’s Melbourne Port Terminal, Australia. The grain handling facility has reported its strongest month of exports since it opened in 2000. During February, more than 185,000 tonnes of grain passed through the facility and on to eight des-tinations across Asia and Africa including China, Japan and Mozambique.

Glen Collision, general manager stor-age and handling, Emerald Grain said the record month was thanks to improved efficiencies across Emerald’s supply chain. “Emerald has a long-term lease of two locomotives which transport grain quickly from Emerald’s storage sites in New South Wales and Victoria and through to the port.”

Melbourne Port Terminal’s previous high-est month of exports was 145,000 tonnes in July 2012.

The terminal requires grain export-ers to deliver a minimum 50 percent of grain via rail to help increase throughput. “Emerald has also introduced an efficient truck-scheduling system enabling 4,000 tonnes road deliveries per day,” said Collison.

“The system assists with the flow of traffic through Appleton Dock and means logistics companies enjoy a much

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faster turnaround. “Everyone along the grain supply chain benefits from port efficiencies. “Growers see better returns on their grain, exporters can meet their shipping slot requirements and international customers have access to high quality grain from south eastern Australia.”

Most grain leaving the port over February was exported in bulk (load-ed directly into the ship’s hull) while around 20,000 tonnes was packed in containers.

“Some African destinations don’t yet have the capacity to receive grain in bulk. Melbourne Port Terminal’s container pack-ing facility means Emerald still has the abil-ity to reach this important export market,” said Collison.

Emerald took control of Melbourne Port Terminal’s operations when it acquired storage and handling group Australian Bulk Alliance in March 2012.

The facility has 48,000 tonnes of on-site storage and the capacity to export more than 1.2 million tonnes of grain per year.

GrainCorp able to transfer bulk grain capacityAustralia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has agreed GrainCorp’s plans to allow customers to transfer grain capacity to other users in its port network.

“This change will result in a more efficient use of port terminal capacity by reducing the chance that capacity will go unused at peak times,” said Joe Dimasi, ACCC com-missioner.

A similar system is already implement-ed by other operators including CBH and Viterra.

At present GrainCorp handles the major-ity of grain shipping from eastern states on a first come first serve basis. It’s hoped that the new system, which comes into effect on April 23, 2013, will help reallocate capacity to its most economically efficient use. The revised protocols are available on GrainCorp’s website.

First birthday for CBH and Watco rail partnershipOn March 30, 2013 the CBH Group and Watco reached their first year anniversary working together to move the state’s grain harvest on rail.

Colin Tutt, general manager operations, CBH Group, said that since CBH and Watco ran their first rail service from Kwinana twelve months ago, nearly 5 million tonnes have been moved on rail.

“Together, we have moved 3.5 million tonnes into Kwinana port and Metro Grain Centre, and 1.5 million tonnes into both the Geraldton and Albany ports,” he said.

“We have been through a transition period during these first 12 months while the new locomo-tives and wag-ons were slowly brought online. We are extreme-ly pleased with the volume of grain that has been moved on rail, especially in the wake of the record 15 million tonne crop of the 2011-12 season.

“This perform-ance will improve over time to provide Western Australian grow-ers even more efficiency and lower freight rates.”

Watco WA Rail provide rail logistics serv-ices to the CBH Group including train crewing, planning, sched-uling and track-ing, rolling stock maintenance and inventory con-trol.

Watco WA Rail chief oper-ating officer Jim Griffiths said that while there have been some teething issues and challenges in operating on the WA tracks, over-all the efficiency of the fleet is performing very well.

“In some instances the new locomotives and wagons can in pull up to 25 percent more grain to port with each journey, so while we are limited by track infrastructure, the increased load capacity helps us to better achieve tonnes to port,” he said.

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