Wow.. After all those difficulties that the whole Sino Bell’s team have been going through, finally…
LOADING TO THE BARGE!!!!
The barge can already been seen. Lets first see our dearest barge…
there.. there.. there..
can u see??
Yuhuuuu
long...
The name of our barge is called Sinar Banjar. It is 320 ft long that can carry min 5000MT and max 8000MT of steam coals.
preparation
The in charge people and the bulldozer were already prepared to welcome the barge to berth. The bulldozer was there to clean up the road that will be used by the trucks from the stockpile to inside the barge.
Sinar Banjar
arriving 1
arriving 2
The barge is starting to berth. When they berth, they need to really fit in perfectly with the help of a tugboat. The picture of a tugboat couldn’t be captured because it is smaller than the barge and so the view of the tugboat is blocked by the barge.
This barge got its own engine as well which can move faster than any other barge that can only rely on the strength of a tugboat.
berth 1
berth 2
berth 3
BERTH!!
Now the barge had berth perfectly where the trucks may start moving the steam coals to the barge.
From all the above pictures, seems like that the barge came smoothly right?? Actually it was not smooth. The Sino Bell team waited for a whole 2 days. Day and night at the jetty. It took a whole 2 days for it to berth because of the low tide and high tide thing. When it was on a low tide, the previous barge couldn’t move away and our barge couldn’t come over.
Anyway, once the barge were ready, steam coals can be moved from the stockpile to the barge.
move
move..
move...
As usual…
Because loading onto the barge by using trucks, then a bulldozer will then be needed again to grab the steam coals in the stockpile and dump it into the truck so that the trucks can move the steam coals to the barge.
loading
onto the
barge
From the picture… See the machine there?? It is known as a conveyor belt. Actually using a conveyor belt to load steam coals onto the barge is way faster. Crushing using the conveyor belt can drop/load onto the barge immediately after the steam coals are crushed.
However, because our steam coals had already been crushed previously due to because we want to see the crushing before Sino Bell pay the 50% of the steam coals. It is to make sure that the steam coals really belongs to us that we can do anything with our steam coal.
We cannot wait the crushing when the barge had berth because the supplier (CV. Permata AL-Zahra) was not good in managing the barge.
There was always an issue that other people’s barge took our barge parking spot or because of the low tide thing. So we need to see the crushing before the barge berth. The other reason why the operation cannot use the conveyor belt was because the supplier always say that he got no money.
*Note: The supplier should be responsible in paying for the overall operation as agreed.
Full
Can u see the tugboat??
Hahahaha… The Barge is now fill up with our steam coals already. And can anyone see the tugboat? The red roof that you may or may not realize is the tugboat. I can finally capture a bit of it.
But don’t worry. The next picture, you may see more bits of the tugboat. =D
waiting
go
Since the barge is now filled up with enough steam coals so the Sino Bell team and the others were waiting the best timing for the barge to start going to the mother vessel.
The best timing as is ensuring that the tides was high enough for the barge to start moving to the barge.
There were already Geoservices people on standby to survey how many metric tons steam coals were loaded on the barge. It can only be survey when the barge is already on the middle of the sea.
After waiting for a day, the result shown that there were 5,110 MT steam coals loaded on the barge. So the barge can move on to the mother vessel.
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