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Excellence Award. A year earlier
the project captured a Facilities
Excellence Award.
Engineering design excellence
produced:
• Automated wagon vibrators
that eliminate manual handling
and noise-related occupational
health and safety hazards
• Jetty widening on a single row
of vertical piles to ensure the
benefits of lower capital cost,
smoother constructability and
easier maintenance
• Further expansion
accommodated by the jetty
widening and the vertical
pile structure
• Processes that allowed full
production being achieved
within days of startup
• An enhanced working
environment that is cleaner,
provides good maintenance
access and is less constrained
for operational personnel.
At program completion, a
distinguishing operational feature
of DBCT was the technology of
two reclaimers simultaneously
feeding each outloading
conveyor/shiploader. This feature
enables DBCT to efficiently
blend cargoes out of the
stockpiles which have enhanced
terminal users' commercial
positions in global markets.
The DBCT 7X project scope of
work included the introduction
of 3D anti-collision technology
that increased the advantage
of cargo blending. In addition
to the innovative higher bund
walls in the stockyard, greater
capacity, efficient blending and
simultaneous machine operation,
is only part of the engineering
components that have placed
DBCT as the highest throughput
coal export terminal in the
southern hemisphere
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