Vassiliko Cement acquires new clinker export terminal
Published by Harleigh Hobbs,
Editor
Dry Bulk,
Bedeschi has been awarded of a contract to create a clinker export terminal for Vassiliko Cement. The system will be installed in the port terminal of the cement plant equipped with a shiploader on tyres and with surface feeder.
The trucks arrive on the dock and discharge the material on the surface feeder directly connected with belt conveyors to the shiploader.
The whole system moves along the quay as to optimise vessels loading. The capacity is up to 550 tph, but it has been indicated that it is possible a future implementation to arrive at 800 tph.
This is not the first time Bedeschi has worked with Vassiliko Cement. Ten years ago the company produced a circular limestone storage plant for the Vassiliko Cement Plant in Cyprus.
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/ports-terminals/12052016/vassiliko-cement-acquires-new-clinker-export-terminal/
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