Coal Handling

Terminals at Port
Qasim Authority &
its Conveyer belt
System

Presented to : Mr. Sohail Bashir

Presented By : Tariq Aziz
CE-47, 2015-16

Layout Plan of PQA

Terminals

Coal Terminals

Presently there are two Coal Terminals at Port

Qasim Authority.
Iron Ore And coal Berth (Operational)
Pakistan Internal Bulk Terminal (Under
Construction).

Iron Ore and Coal

Berth
(IOCB)
The berth was designed and constructed by a
French firm M/s Societe General D Enterprise
(SGE) and the work commenced in may 1977
and was substantially completed in march
1979, it was commissioned in 1980,.
The IOCB is equipped with two grab unloaders
with a handling of 1000 tones per hour each.
The berth is rented to Pak steel Mill by PQA

Layout Plan of IOCB

Characteristics of
IOCB

A 279 m long berth on

a jetty with
permissible vessel
draught of 11.0m,
beam of 40m and LOA
of 230m. Vessels up to
55,000dwt may be
handled.

Characteristics of
IOCB

There are two ship

unloaders with grabs
and hoppers,
manufactured in the
year 1980 by Caillard in
France, with a rated
capacity of 1,000t/h
each.

Characteristics of
IOCB

The jetty is linked

with the stock
piles of Pakistan
steel via a 4.5km
long conveyor
belt system (two
parallel belts)
with a rated
capacity of up to
1,200t/h each.

Characteristics of
IOCB

Characteristics of
IOCB

The jetty and the

building (accommodating
administration offices,
operations offices,
workshop area, social
rooms) are property of
PQA.
Pakistan steel owns
the handling equipment
(ship unloaders and
conveyor belt system) and
the trestle.

Characteristics of
IOCB

Since the inauguration of the terminal in 1980 a

total amount of 24.7 million tonnes of coal (571
vessel calls), 42.35 million tonnes of iron ore
(926 vessel
calls) and 1.4 million tonnes of coke (36
vessel calls) has been unloaded, leading to more
than 68 million tonnes in total.

Procedures and
Information Flow

Cargo is discharged from the vessels

hatch with one ship unloader at a time
while the 2nd unloader serves as backup.
Smaller grabs are used for iron ore and
bigger grabs for coal due to the different
specific weight of coal and iron ore. From
the hoppers the cargo is distributed on
the conveyor belts. Only one of the two
belt systems is used at a time.

Procedures and
Information Flow

The conveyor belt system then transports the

cargo the stock piles at the steel mill .Cargo is
weighed when loaded on the conveyor belts.
When only little cargo is remaining in the
vessels hatch, wheel loaders are placed in the
hatch for the consolidation of this cargo and to
feed the grabs with the remaining cargo.

Brief Assessment of Port

Operations

Average handling volume per vessel is around 55,000t

of cargo at on average 100 operation hours which leads
to an average performance of around 550t/h with 1 ship
unloader which is equivalent to around 55% of the
rated capacity per hour (which can only be reached at
full digging).
Equipment downtime (and thus resulting non-operation
time at the quayside) is around 10h per vessel call on
average which is considered to be quite high, even
though the contracts are usually fulfilled due to low
performance requirements in the service contracts with
the shipping lines and/or the steel mill respectively.

Brief Assessment of Port

Operations

The ship loaders and conveyor system are

in apparently very poor technical
condition. Remaining lifetime, especially of
the ship unloaders, is expected to be very
short due to the following facts:
The age of the equipment (ship unloaders
are already more than 30 years old)
The apparently high degree of corrosion
The ship unloaders have already
exceeded their calculated lifetime by far,
i.e: the ship unloaders have been designed
for 60,000 working hours lifetime and they
have already worked around 65,000
working hours each.

Repair/Rehabilitation of
IOCB

The Structure started giving distress signals in

1988 as cracks ,spalling and corrosion of
reinforcement were observed .stop grab
treatment was given for rehabilitation of
structure due to paucity of funds and
administrative reasons till December 2004
when full fledge work was awarded to M/s
STFA Hakas JV . The Contractor commenced
the work of replacement of runway beams
,repair to damaged concrete structures and
replacement of bearing pads etc and
completed the work in two years.

Recent Repair works in

2014

Recent Repair works in

2014

Replacement of Pile Casings

Recent Repair works in

2014

Re-Strengthning of Beams through CBRF by SIKA

Recent Repair works in

2014

Total Amount of Rs.800 Million has been

spended on account of Repair/Rehabilitation
of IOCB due to its Construction Design Fault .
The Jetty is designed on the German code and
based on river design parameters.

Pakistan International Bulk

Terminal

The objective of the terminal operation is

handling of coal as import cargo and clinker and
cement as export cargo.
The dedicated Coal Terminal will have
handling capacity of 8 million tonnes per annum
with a storage capacity of 0.9 million tonnes. An
Implementation Agreement was signed in 2010
Between PQA & PIBT (Pakistan International Bulk
Terminal).

Layout Plan Of PIBT

Pakistan International Bulk

Terminal

The construction of the terminal is tendered and is

expected to come into operation in 2017. The
new trestle for connection of the jetty of approx.
440 m to the back-up area will be close and
slightly parallel to the existing trestle of FOTCO Oil
Terminal. The layout of the bulk terminal
development comprises the construction of a new
pier of 440 m total length, a trestle with a
conveyor belt connecting the jetty with the
storage yard of approximate 2,450 metre length,
and the storage yard with on-shore facilities.

Pakistan International Bulk

Terminal

The coal will be stored in open stacks

arranged parallel to the west and east
boundaries of the area. Clinker will be stored
at the remaining V-shape between the coal
stacks.
Two 600 tons per hour rated capacity grab
ship unloaders, with combined operational
capacity of 900 ton per hour average , and
one 1200 tons per hour rated capacity loader
for clinker.

Pakistan International Bulk

Terminal

Cement storage facilities of 50,000 tons.

Coal /Clinker storage in two stock piles .
One Conveyer along the entire length of jetty
for all commodities , capacity 1000 tons.
A transfer conveyer belt of 1200 tons per hour
from jetty to stock yard.
Approach Trestle of 2.6 Km long with 4 m
width with a steel truss structure for carrying
conveyers.

Main Features of Conveyer Belt

system of PIBT

4.5 Km long coal conveyor belt along with

allied steel & concrete structures. The
capacity of coal conveyor will be around
3600 tonnes/hr.
The stacking capacity will be 3600 tonnes/hr
whereas reclaiming will be done at the rate of
2400 tonnes/hr.
capacity of load out station will be 400 to 600
tonnes.

Miscellaneous
facilities

Quality Control Laboratory.

Emergency Shutdown system
Firefighting and lighting system.
Railway line,l oading and unloading facilities.
Work Shops.

Construction Pictures

Construction Pictures

Construction Pictures

Thankyou