YOUR PARTNER IN AGRI-BULK HANDLING HANDLING • TRANSPORT • STORAGE • DISTRIBUTION • PROCESSING JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 Grain deal for Khalifa Port Abu Dhabi Ports has inked competitive food ingredi- for the benefit of new and superior logistical capabili- a 50-year land lease agree- ents, the facility will utilise existing manufacturing ties not only enhances our ment with Anchorage In- grain resources to convert customers. Our clients will service delivery, but also al- vestment for the develop- wheat into flour for baked be able to source ready- lows us to expand our con- ment of grain storage and goods, corn into starch and made, competitive products tribution to the national processing plants at Khalifa glucose, and barley, corn quickly.” food security ecosystem. Port. and wheat by-products into Following the official “A robust logistical offer- The facilities will be animal feed. handover of the land plot ing can play a fundamental managed by National Feed, Saif Al Mazrouei, head of in the first quarter of 2021, role in the accessibility and one of the largest agro Ports Cluster, Abu Dhabi the new project will house cost structure of food com- commodity processors in Ports, said: “It is a great several grain silos capable of modity supply chains. The official signing ceremony for the 50-year lease Abu Dhabi. Set to be devel- honour and privilege that storing grain for an extend- “With its deepwater agreement oped on a 100,000 m2 plot, Khalifa Port has been se- ed period, providing Abu capabilities, a strategic geo- and with an initial design lected to serve as the future Dhabi and the wider UAE graphical location, and ac- to the abundance and com- within the region. In addi- capacity of 300,000t, the home for National Feed’s with a long-term storage cess to an extensive road petitiveness of food and tion to expanding Khalifa facility will introduce grain grain storage and process- solution contributing to and future rail network, feed strategic commodities Port’s role beyond han- storage and processing ca- ing facilities. national food security. Khalifa Port will unlock in the UAE.” dling food containers and pabilities to the multipur- “Furthering the capa- Edward Hamod, general new opportunities for Following the comple- livestock, the new facility pose port for the produc- bilities of our multipurpose manager of National Feed, National Feed, not only tion of the new facility, Abu is intended to support the tion of key food and animal port and bolstering our on- said: “We are extremely increasing our grain stor- Dhabi Ports said it will lev- operations of world-lead- feed ingredients. going activities within the proud to be part of one of age and industrial capaci- erage the capabilities of the ing food production brands With the aim of provid- region’s food supply chain, the most important ports in ties, but also enhancing new food storage and pro- that have established them- ing Abu Dhabi Ports’ cus- the operation will intro- the region and the world. the movement of products, cessing plant to extend its selves in Khalifa Industrial tomers with direct access to duce several key advantages Having direct access to which will be instrumental food supply chain activities Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD). Barents Sea terminal for Russian fertiliser exports Russia’s Marine Terminal facilities in the Murmansk modating large Panamax- Tuloma (MTT) is to build a region, PhosAgro has long class vessels (the existing dedicated terminal for han- been seeking partners to Murmansk port operates on dling fertilisers and apatite construct a local export ter- the opposite side of the bay). concentrate near the coun- minal. Estimated to cost around try’s principal Barents Sea In 2019, it signed a US$175M, MTT would be harbour of Murmansk by Memorandum of Coop- one of four anchor projects Q2 2023. eration with St Petersburg- implemented within the Initial capacity is planned headquartered transport AC framework. PhosAgro at 4 Mtpa and may eventu- group Infotech Baltika, has expressed its interest in ally be increased to 6 Mtpa, which already operated the the project. according to Dmitry Suk- Murmansk-based logistics honosov, MTT’s director terminal Nord. The par- general. ties declared plans to jointly CONTENTS He believes the termi- develop a 6 Mtpa dedicated nal will be instrumental in facility. NEWS handling Russia’s fertiliser Last year, the Kremlin Floating cranes to Guinea 2 exports, which have been gave the MTT project the Oz miners sidestep ban 3 expanding since the adop- green light, having awarded Moatize mine sell-off 7 tion of the Moscow-backed it the status of a strategically policy of rerouting export important initiative for the flows from foreign (mainly development of the coun- SOUTH AFRICA FOCUS Baltic States) to domestic try’s transport infrastructure. Promise for SA coal 8 seaports. Furthermore, MTT was Manganese for Ngqura 9 According to Russia’s registered as a resident of Ministry of Transport, the the Arctic Capital (AC) ad- SHIPPING nation’s mineral fertiliser vanced development area, producers are currently ex- a special economic zone Coking coal under threat 11 porting more than 70% of of the Murmansk region, their total output, with over granting its residents sub- CARGO HANDLING 30% of the exported vol- stantial tax breaks and land- OPA sensors for cranes 12 umes being handled by port lease rights without previ- operators. Hence, the ferti- ous tenders. liser producers are interested Thus, it is planned to CONTAINERISED BULK in entering the sector. build the MTT terminal on Pressure on supply chains 13 Russia’s leading pro- a 100-ha plot on the west- New Rotainer RS 14 ducer of phosphate-based ern, deepsea shore of the RAM takes a tilt 15 fertilisers with production Kola Bay capable of accom- News More floating cranes to Guinea Konecranes has received Appliances in a Marine receive a repeat order from shown themselves to be another order for Kone- Environment, which al- a satisfied customer. Our productive and reliable in cranes Gottwald Model 8 lows them to be operated technology has proved it- a rough open sea environ- floating cranes from Jiangsu at wind speeds up to 24 m/ self once again under chal- ment. So when we needed Zhenjiang Shipyard, again sec and at maximum wave lenging conditions. As the more capacity, we were for seagoing barges for use heights of 2.5m. number of Konecranes happy to order the same by Cosco Bulk off the coast Gottwald introduced its Gottwald cranes-on-barge cranes again.” of Guinea, transloading G HPK floating crane con- grows around the world, In July 2020, Cosco bauxite from river barges to cept in 2004. The new or- we have consolidated our signed a framework agree- ocean-going bulkers bound der will bring the number leading position in this ment with China’s state- Cosco Bulk’s first two Konecranes Gottwald floating for China. operating in the region to market.” owned SPIC Aluminium & cranes transloading bauxite off the west coast of The first two Konecranes 12 units. A spokesperson for Power Investment to trans- Africa. The cranes can also be used to backload heavy Gottwald floating cranes “Our cranes-on-barge Cosco Bulk’s Technical Di- port bauxite from Guinea piece goods, such as mining and engineering equip- for this purpose were sup- capabilities have been vision said: “Transhipping to China and has already ment plied in 2019. Specially growing steadily since raw materials at sea quickly ordered 14 bulk carriers built for use on the open launching in 2004, and we and safely is a key part of an for use in the country. It project. It began transport- contains the biggest un- sea, the cranes have a maxi- will continue to improve efficient supply chain. We now estimates that it will ing ore from Boffa to the tapped iron ore reserves in mum outreach of 43m and them as technology devel- will operate our two new need a total of 30 vessels Port of Rizhao in China the world, a wide range of a 63t grab curve. ops,” said Jerry Fann, sales cranes-on-barge as part of to transport bauxite ore last February. companies continues to de- They are designed in ac- director at Konecranes Port our contract with China on the route, including for While work continues in velop what are the world’s cordance with the Lloyd’s Solutions. Aluminum Group. Our ex- Aluminium Corporation Guinea on developing the biggest bauxite reserves in Register Code for Lifting “It’s always a pleasure to isting cranes-on-barge have of China’s (Chalco) Boffa Simandou project, which the same country. Newport and CEMEX ink new deal LogStar TOS for Building materials com- The six-year lease and ment and construction ma- £275M to the UK econ- pany CEMEX has renewed commercial agreement terials. omy, handling some £1B DP World Sokhna its lease and commercial cover a 2.9-acre site, com- “We are very pleased worth of trade per annum. agreement with the Port of prising land and buildings to have renewed our lease “CEMEX has been a Newport, which is owned at Newport’s South Dock, with ABP,” said David long-standing customer of and operated by Associated where CEMEX operates a Hart, supply chain director, ABP and we’re delighted British Ports (ABP). silo storage facility for ce- UK and France, CEMEX. that this new arrangement “Our cement terminal at will allow our partnership The CEMEX site at the Port of Newport the Port of Newport is an in Newport to continue,” important part of our UK said Simon Brown, ABP’s supply chain, receiving key divisional port manager for raw materials for producing Wales and South West.