{"id":1100,"date":"2020-07-29T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2020\/07\/29\/environmentally-friendly-bulk-handling-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:48:53","slug":"environmentally-friendly-bulk-handling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/equipment\/environmentally-friendly-bulk-handling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally-friendly bulk handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruks Siwertell will deliver three new Siwertell ship unloaders to the port to help ensure the environment-friendly handling of Singapore\u2019s cement imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new units, like all Siwertell unloaders are totally enclosed, and will secure the continuation of extremely efficient, high-capacity cement handling for the port, without dust emissions or spillage, so no cement is wasted and the environment is protected,\u201d said Ola Jeppsson, Bruks Siwertell sales manager, APAC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strict standards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Singapore upholds strict environmental standards in cement handling and Jurong Port works closely with its local government authorities on establishing requirements and measures to minimise fugitive dust from industrial operations.<\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest common user cement terminal for over twenty years, Jurong Port\u2019s Cement Terminal started off with three high-capacity Siwertell ship unloaders that collectively met the cement handling needs of multiple smaller import terminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now time to retire two of those hard-working unloaders,\u201d said Tan Wee Meng, chief technical officer, Jurong Port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new units will continue their legacy of impressive through-ship efficiencies and will work alongside one of the older units, which will remain in service. Together they will handle Singapore\u2019s cement import volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like their predecessors, the three new ST 490-M screw-type rail-travelling unloaders will each discharge cement, fly ash and cement slag from vessels up to 50,000 dwt at a continuous rated capacity of 800t\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the new unloaders are scheduled for delivery in May 2022 and the third by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapores Jurong Port is cleaning up its bulk handling operations by introducing more efficient ship unloaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment","category-products-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}