Bulk carrier back in service with Kingfisher wear protection

摘要

The yeoman bontrup bulk transport ship has been re-launched to perform a transport and delivery service for granite aggregates supplied from Glensanda Quarry in Scotland. The 100,000t self-discharging vessel is back in service after a ￡35M rebuild which included key material handling equipment such as transfer chutes being removed, rebuilt and reinstalled. In order to enhance the performance of this equipment, wear protection specialists Kingfisher were called in to incorporate their technology to enhance the performance and service longevity of the chutes due to detrimental effects of handling hard granite stone. The 21 month planning, engineering and rebuild process was triggered by fire damage caused while in berth at the Glensanda super quarry in Morvern, north-west Scotland during July 2010.