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Construction of Newcastle Coal Export Terminal
Details
Locations:Australia
Start Date:Sep, 2008
End Date:May, 2010
Contract value: USD 123,000,000
Sectors: Civil Engineering
Description
Client: Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG)
Contract type: Construct only
Project details
Thiess was contracted by NCIG to build a coal export terminal (CET) on Kooragang Island at Newcastle Port, NSW. Construction included the installation of inbound systems, a coal stockyard and other civil, structural and mechanical works. Located on the Hunter River to the north of Newcastle, the new terminal has increased the productivity of the Hunter Valley coal chain.
The CET is a modern, state-of-the-art facility with a capacity of up to 30 million tonnes per annum. Thiess’ scope of works included the provision of management and supervision, procurement, manufacture, supply, delivery and construction services. This included the civil, structural and mechanical phases for the following:
- piling for structure foundations
- dump station including dump hopper and control room
- buffer bin
- belt feeder assembly
- conveyor assemblies
- tripper houses
- inbound sampling station and switchroom footing
- transfer houses
- electrical substation footings, and
- stacker reclaimer SR1 & SR2 stockyard ground modules.
Thiess has delivered a first class facility to reduce gridlocks, help boost shipments and export capacity and meet the future requirements of one of Australia’s busiest deep-water ports. It was designed to help increase GDP by $1.5 billion a year, boost exports by $2 billion and generate up to 5000 jobs across NSW.