Brisbane a hub for project cargo
The Port of Brisbane provides a range of facilities to handle the diverse and often unique requirements of project and heavy-lift cargo. PBPL work with customers to ensure Brisbane can offer an integrated solution no matter how complicated or unusual the job is.
We are actively pursuing this type of cargo as major infrastructure, mining and renewable energy projects get underway across Queensland. Our diverse range of handling facilities, available storage facilities, and direct rail and road connections make it an ideal landing port for staging delivery of major equipment.
Port of Brisbane assists pipe dream
QGC, a BG Group business, is a leading Australian natural gas explorer and producer. QGC is developing the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project, which involves the expansion of QGC’s existing gas operations in the Surat Basin, the development of a 540km underground pipeline network and the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone.
The $15 billion QCLNG Project’s first stage will comprise two LNG processing units at the Curtis Island plant, which have a design life of at least 20 years, and will produce a combined 8.5 million tonnes of LNG a year. Export sales will commence in 2014, underpinned by agreements with China, Japan, Singapore and Chile.
In October 2010, the Port of Brisbane’s General Purpose Wharf took delivery of the first shipment of pipes that will form part of the gas pipeline for the QCLNG Project, making it the longest one-metre diameter pipeline laid in Australia.
Over the following seven months, the Port of Brisbane received eight shipments totalling more than 18,800 pipe joints, which will be used to construct the southern end of the pipeline network.
The pipes were stored within the Port of Brisbane’s wharf overflow area before being loaded onto trains at the Brisbane Multimodal Terminal (BMT) and delivered by rail to the construction site in the Surat Basin. The January floods resulted in a shutdown of the rail network for several months. The shipments of pipe were still arriving with no way of transporting them to the Surat Basin.
PBPL provided additional land at Port Gate, as part of a temporary storage solution while the rail network was being repaired.
For more information, contact Trade Development Executive, Andrew Rankine, on (07) 3258 4839 or andrew.rankine@portbris.com.au
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Fast facts:
- Four pipe train services run each week.
- The average length of each train is 600m and includes 38 wagons plus the locomotive.
- Each train carries 152 pipes.
- Travel time from the BMT to Miles takes 13 hours.
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