A maintenance strategy for conveyor belt systems in a dry bulk terminal

At a dry bulk terminal, coal and iron ore are transported in the open air by conveyor belts and handled by large (mainly automated) equipment. The dry bulk material is rough and the equipment is installed in the harsh environment of the harbour. With vessels continuously being unloaded by quay cranes and outgoing vessels and trains being loaded,...

Improving Dust Control at a Bulk Terminal: Development and Implementation of a Dust Control Strategy

Dust emissions developed during the handling of dry bulk products pose increased risks for health, safety and the environment. Legislation drives bulk handling facilities to face the challenge of maintaining dust emissions within limitations. At the bulk terminal of Verbrugge multiple bulk products are handled, making the dust control problem...

A Simulation-Based Approach to Design a Dry Bulk Transshipment Terminal for Polymetallic Nodule Collection: A Discrete Event Simulation Study

There is a growing demand of various metals originating from the sustainable energy transition. The current supply and investments plans for these critical minerals are insufficient to enable this green energy transition. Other problems are the dependency of third countries and multiple drawbacks of land-mining. Deep-sea mining could be a great...

Ammonia bunkering and storage for the maritime industry during a global ammonia transition

The worlds awareness of our emissions and the effect it has on our surroundings is increasing. This influences efforts to put new agreements into place to reduce emissions and the effects on global warming. Along with the Paris agreements, the International Maritime Organisation also came with measures to achieve these needed reductions of...

Truck arrival management systems at liquid bulk terminals: Case study for a new set-up of truck logistics at Vopak Terminal Vlaardingen

This thesis contributes to the research of a complementary Truck Arrival Management system in order to increase the efficiency of the Liquid Bulk Terminal as a system in a global intermodal supply chain. Nowadays, terminals often suffer from congestion, despite the use of a Truck Arrival Management system. A Truck Arrival Management system...

Stockyard Storage Space Allocation in Dry Bulk Terminals Considering Mist Cannons and Energy Expenditure

Storage space management in bulk terminals has become an important focus for research and practical operation due to the increasing demand for bulk cargo and limited storage space in stockyards. The study of storage space management in dry bulk terminals is less thorough and comprehensive, and the existing research investigates the storage...

Analysis and Simulation of a Break Bulk Terminal in the steel industry

Break bulk terminal operators are constantly in search for improving the performance of their operations. The logistical processes associated with these operations are complex and identifying where improvements have the largest impact on performance therefore is as well. In this paper a combination of system thinking and discrete-event...

Terminal Design Optimization: Adaptive agribulk terminal planning in light of an uncertain future

This study analyzes the financial impact of design guidelines used in the development of agribulk terminals and sets out to quantify the effect of uncertain throughput projections on a terminal’s business case. This was done through the use of a purposely-built computer model that translates traffic projections into a terminal design in an...

Storage sharing at import dry-bulk terminals: A case study at Gadani Energy Park

The Gadani Energy Park is a to-be build project in which ten coal-fired power plants are established at one location near the shore of Karachi, Pakistan. In the initial situation, all power plants manage their own on-shore operations. The objective of this study is to gain insight in the advantages and disadvantages of yard collaboration in bulk...

Simulation-integrated Design of Dry Bulk Terminals

To meet the expected increase of seaborne trade flows for coal and iron ore dry bulk terminals need to be designed or expanded. A comprehensive design method for dry bulk terminals is missing. Designs are currently based on rules-of-thumb, practical experiences and average values for specific design criteria. In this research, additions to...

Transshipment port in the Rio de la Plata

The predictions for the future foretell an increase of the amount of exported grain over the Rio Paraná/Rio de la Plata system of 63% in 2030. Besides this, the new Panama locks will be finished in 2015. Seeing as the current shipping standard is largely determined by the Panama locks, the general expectation is that the vessel dimensions will...

SIMULATION AS TOOL TO ESTIMATE THE HOMOGENIZATION EFFICIENCY OF BULK MATERIAL HANDLING

Port Design - Nador

Along the northern coast of Morocco order has been given for the construction of a large transshipment port in the Mediterranean Sea, at a designated project location around the city of Nador. On this green-field coastal stretch a new transhipment port will have to be developed for various types of cargo. Throughputs of the terminals will have...