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port services
With its hi-tech equipment and modern facilities, Brigantine Services is
a world leader in container repairs.
Tow boats and lighters play an extremely valuable role at the Port of
Hong Kong, handling over 40 million tonnes of mid-stream cargo a year.
relative to the sum of its parts
increases/' said Mr Craig.
"By enabling Hong Kong's
shippers, forwarders, carriers and
terminal operators to be more
responsive, both individually and
collectively, PortNet is helping
Hong Kong maintain its lead as the
region's premiere trade hub."
Container Repair -
Brigantine Services Ltd
(Container Services
Division)
BRIGANTINE Services Limited
(Container Services Division), one of
the world's leading container repair
companies, boasts a state-of-the-art
refurbishment plant on a 23,000 sq
metre site in Yuen Long.
Hi-tech equipment at the modern
plant, capable of refurbishing any
container up to 45 ft (1 3.7 metres)
long and 9.5 ft (2.9 metres) high,
includes a fully automatic,
computer-controlled shotblaster
designed to ensure greater precision
and uniform quality.
The plant, covering an area of
nearly 7,000 sq metres, boasts three
environmentally-friendly paint
process lines to accommodate both
conventional solvent-borne and
water-borne paint systems.
Unlike any other container
refurbishment plant in Asia, BSL's
Yuen Long facility has a capacity of
four 45 ft high cube steel containers
per hour, including possible repair.
Its newly established
reefer box repair line for
heavy damaged boxes
occupies an area of 1,000
sq metres complementing
repair work, including
PTI's, carried out at its
depots in Lau Fau Shan
and at the Modern
Terminals Limited (MTL)
port facility.
BSL, the first company
in Hong Kong to
introduce a Reefer Service
Centre, also acts as an agent for
several major reefer unit
manufacturers that include Thermo
King (Sabroe Reefer Cool),
Mitsubishi and Seacold.
Eva Lam, BSL's Assistant Manager
for Sales & Marketing, said: "Our
qualified and experienced reefer
technicians are
capable of
providing all kinds
of reefer repair
services, retrofits
and modifications
for different
manufactured
reefer units."
BSL, which in
addition to its
agency work is the
exclusive Graff spare parts dealer in
the Far East, utilises its own
refrigerant machine to avoid ozone
depletion as part of its commitment
to protecting the environment.
Lighters & Towage
A FLEET of 1,600 lighters and 500
motorised tow boats are used to
handle more than 40 million tonnes
of mid-stream cargo a year at the
Port of Hong Kong.
The port's lighter fleet, which
includes around 200 specially
designed to accommodate
containers, transport both breakbulk
and containerised cargoes
between vessels at moorings and at
anchor in the busy harbour and
public cargo working areas or
private berths around the territory.
Tow boats used to move dumb
lighters around the harbour generally
feature a length of 38-65 ft. (11.5-
20 m) and an engine capacity of
between 46-600 kW(62-800 hp).
Hong Kong's largest lighters,
operated by around a dozen midstream
operators, are capable of
accommodating up to 100 TEUs.
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