CSL has an impressive track record of providing high capacity, reliable, cost effective and environmentally sound transhipment services to mining companies around the world.
By combining proven gravity-based cargo handling technology with 100 years of operating experience, we will provide you with the reliability and productivity you require from your transhipment operation.
• New supply areas for commodities;
• Lack of natural deep water ports;
• Environmental impact of dredging and deep water port construction;
• Dramatic advances in transhipment system capabilities.
CSL supports mining companies from the pre-feasibility study phase and throughout the life of the mine. In the initial phase, CSL conceptualizes transhipment solutions and provides a comprehensive analysis of productivity, throughput, lead time, risk and cost.
CSL has adapted its gravity-based self-unloading technology to meet the rigorous requirements of high-volume transhipment. Our transhipment systems are designed and built to meet or surpass the highest safety and environmental standards.
We develop optimum transhipment solutions based on a combination of factors:
• Geography and port loading infrastructure;
• Throughput and productivity requirements;
• Distance from the port to the transhipment site;
• Water depth;
• MetOcean conditions;
• Cargo profile.
Low Cost
CSL’s new generation of high capacity transhippers provide a dramatically improved value proposition compared with older, often crane-based, transhipment options. With superior productivity, increased capacity, simple shore infrastructure and reliability built right into the design, CSL provides high-value low-cost transhipment solutions.
Limited Capital Expenditure
Transhipping with CSL means reducing capital expenditure on shoreside infrastructure and less maintenance dredging.
Reduced Freight Cost
CSL can develop transhipment solutions for draft restricted ports, with as little as a five meter draft, performing offshore loading of export vessels up to 180,000 tonnes deadweight.
Scalability
The modular and movable nature of transhippers provides inherent scalability and offers a realizable residual value once a mine comes to the end of its life.
CSL’s transhippers are designed to minimize environmental impact:
• They require less or no dredging;
• Fully enclosed gravity-based cargo handling system eliminates risk of fugitive material;
• Their optimized design minimizes noise and vibration in both air and water.
Fast
• CSL offers proven and reliable transhipment solutions with cargo transfer rates up to 10,000 tonnes per hour (TPH).
Experience, proven technology, innovation, and a corporate commitment to elevate safety and reduce the environmental impact of our operations are keys to CSL’s success. Our highly effective transhipment solutions give cients around the world a competitive edge.
Introducing the High Capacity Gravity Transhipment Shuttle Vessel
Responding to customer demand for high capacity, cost-effective transhipment systems, CSL has developed a Gravity Transhipment Shuttle Vessel (TSV) that is setting new standards for productivity. With innovative use of proven solutions and technologies, CSL’s TSV can tranship cargo at up to 10,000 TPH. The design concept allows all dimensions – length, beam and draft – to be adjusted to suit the requirements of any project. The TSV can range between 22,000 and 60,000 deadweight – or even smaller for severely restricted ports and rivers.
Dual conveyors and loading booms allow for the loading of two holds at once, minimizing shifting.
CSL’S TSV IS DESIGNED FROM THE BOTTOM UP TO OFFER DISTINCT ADVANTAGES
Reliable in Remote, Intense Operations
• Robust equipment with low failure rates;
• Redundancy of critical equipment;
• Rapid repairability by crew.
Cost Effective
• Highly maneuverable and designed to operate without tug assistance;
• Appropriate automation level to reduce manning costs;
• High productivity.
Customer Focused
• Purpose designed as per cargo requirements;
• Optimized for the customer’s infrastructure and local operating conditions;
• Broadens customers end markets by offering economies of scale.
The CSL Group Inc. (“CSL”) of Montreal, Canada is a world-leading provider of marine dry bulk cargo handling and delivery services. Through its major operating divisions, Canada Steamship Lines, CSL Americas, CSL Australia, CSL Asia, CSL Europe and CSL Transhipment, CSL owns and operates a highly diversified fleet of specialized self-unloading vessels, off-shore transhippers and handysize bulk carriers.