Another major package, for the design, construction and completion of conveyor system facilities was awarded last month to Muhibbah Engineering for MYR157m ($48m). Bintulu Port Holdings has reportedly allocated a budget of MYR70m for the equipment needed in the final package, which includes one pneumatic suction loader and three units of level luffing cranes.
The new port is designed to serve energy-intensive industries like aluminium smelters and manganese and ferro-alloy smelters in the nearby Samalaju Industrial Park.
The MYR194m interim port facilities package was the first to have been completed and became operational about six months ago. The facilities, which include two wharves and a roll-on roll-off ramp, are capable of handling up to 4m tonnes of cargo a year.
Port operator Samalaju Industrial Port, which is a unit of Bintululu Port Holdings, is targeting to handle between 1m and 3m tonnes of cargo, mostly project cargo, each in 2014 and 2015.
Four conveyor lines would be built to either deliver raw materials from the port right to the manufacturing plants of energy-intensive industries, or have the raw materials transferred from the port to an open stockpile area, where the companies concerned would load them onto lorries and send them to their factories. Samalaju Port aims to handle 6m tonnes of cargo in its first year of full operations.
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