Samalaju Industrial Port – Concept and Tender Documents

Client

Halcrow/CH2M HILL 5701 Cleveland St., Suite 200 Virginia Beach, VA 23462

for

KTA (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd Lot 8650-3, Section 64 Jalan Simpang Tiga, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Samalaju Industrial Port Sdn. Bhd. (Company No.: 406345-H) Lot 15, Block 20, Kemena Land Dist. 12th Miles, Tanjung Kidurong Road 97000 Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Completion Date

October, 2013

Project Description

The Government of Malaysia is funding a new bulk port and industrial park, which caters to energy intensive industries. The Port of Samalaju will serve a number of energy intensive facilities being attracted to the Samalaju Industrial Park, a new complex being developed adjacent to the port. These facilities are predominately associated with the high grade metals and chemicals industries, including aluminum, high-strength steel, plastics/vinyl, etc.

The initial development of the port is primarily a four (4) berth jetty for Handymax size vessels. The berths are arranged in-line, along the roughly 0.90 kilometer jetty. To handle the assortment of dramatically different commodities, five (5) import conveyor systems and one (1) export conveyor system are being executed. The conveyor belt system includes multiple stackers and portal scraper reclaims to stockpile commodities; a high capacity, four (4) station, truck loading terminal; and a conveyor system interchange facility to the planned Samalaju Industrial Port conveyor distribution system.

Energy Associates evaluated the dry bulk commodities projections and the port’s requirements to conceive the concept for the belt conveyor system. A multitude of proprietary equipment, design options, features, etc. were evaluated in a series of twenty plus (20+) project reports including the design basis, cost estimates, and power requirements. The system features multiple flow paths for each subsystem, system redundancy, and different technologies to suite each commodity. Shown below is a view of one berth illustrating the interface of a shiploader and a ship unloader with the conveyor belt system at berth No. 3. The conveyors on the jetty are arranged in a compact arrangement for the 0.9 kilometer long jetty. Energy Associates prepared the technical tender specification, tender data sheets, and bid drawings for KTA to adapt to the tender documents.