Objective
The terminal is a multi-user, muli-cargo bulk terminal, which apart from power station coal is required:
- to receive a variety of other "hard" materials such as aggregates for despatch by road from the stockyard; and
- to unload "soft" materials - fertilisers and animal feeds - from ships for transfer (via transfer station TS1) to a covered dry bulk store being devel oped by others adjacent to the Royal Portbury Dock.
The main parameters of the terminal were as follows:
- Annual throughput: 7,000,000 t
- Unloading rate: 4,000 t/h
- Stacking rate: 4,000 t/h
- Stockpile capacity: 550,000
- Reclaim rate: 2,500 t/h
- Train loading: 1x45 HAA Wagon Train in 15 minutes
The client's proposals are illustrated in Fig. 1 (overleaf) and show the two continuous ship unloaders sited in the Royal Portbury Dock with the stockyards being located on the vacant land situated between the M5 motorway, the Lafarge plasterboard factory and the river Avon.
■
