PROJECT: Multi-Product Port Improvement
Sabah Energy Corporation, Labuan, Sabah, Malaysia

Single pier facility under construction to handle iron ore imports and export of hot briquette iron (HBI) and methanol. Concern regarding economic level of berth availability under design throughput conditions.

Principal Features:

• Operation research analysis determined that pier occupancy demurrages for handling methanol loading, ore unloading and HBI loading at single and facility were not economically feasible.

• Preliminary feasibility studies found that design modification of ore pier and a new, separate methanol pier could be constructed without increase in overall cost and schedule.

• Designed modification to ore pier to accommodate vessels of 150,000 DWT with some warping required for the large ships.

• Designed new methanol loading pier capable of servicing vessels of 3,000 to 42,000 DWT on accelerated basis to provide construction drawings to allow for uninterrupted construction progress.

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