Bega’s new hub terminal has more than doubled its cargo handling capacity to five million tonnes per year and is proving an excellent showcase for the integrated Siwertell design and technology solution that is helping the company achieve it.

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ega’s new hub terminal has more than doubled its cargo
handling capacity to five million tonnes per year and is proving
an excellent showcase for the integrated Siwertell design and
technology solution that is helping the company achieve it.
The operational contrast between conventional bulk handling
machinery and the Siwertell portfolio from Cargotec is strong, says
Jörgen Ojeda, Director for Siwertell mobile unloaders.
While many competitor systems are noisy and polluting, Siwertell
systems are extremely unobtrusive; quiet, enclosed, spillage-free
and with dust creation reduced to an absolute minimum. Even
their physical presence is minimised, for although these are major
mechanical structures, they are frequently more compact and light-
weight than alternatives.
“It’s something of a paradox, but to understand the full benefits of
our technology and the way it is applied to our products, you have
to appreciate all the things that you don’t see and hear!” he says.
“This is even more the case when it comes to our terminal solu-
tions; even though there will normally be a lot going on, there will be
very little to see or hear.
“You’ll see very few personnel, because the processes will be
largely automated and controlled from a central control room. In
many cases you won’t see or hear much of the cargo being handled
either, because it will be travelling, very quietly, via overhead or
subterranean conveyors, routed to storage areas, loading bays or to
a ship loader for onward shipping.
“We have many references for successful equipment supply and
bulk terminal designs, testing and commissioning, for a wide range of
dry bulk commodities and trade patterns,” notes Mr Ojeda.
A recent contract for Bega – a major stevedoring company
operating in Lithuania’s third largest port, Klaipéda – is an excel-
lent showcase for the company’s expertise in addressing the need
for a very flexible terminal solution that offers a wide range of
options for dealing with a range of agri-bulk commodities in a way
that allows importers and exporters to make the best commercial
decisions with regard to their bulk assets as well as their seasonal
requirements.
Prior to implementing its Siwertell solution, Bega was quite limited
in the scope of its agri-bulk operations at Klaipéda.
With no dedicated storage areas, it was not possible for Bega to
store agricultural products at the port, so grain was exported through
other Baltic facilities.
Bega had little flexibility in the way it operated, and it needed to
build a modern terminal to allow it to expand and offer first-rate bulk
handling and storage options to its customers.
Now, following the construction and commissioning of its new termi-
nal complex, Bega can handle the multi-modal export and transit flow of
agricultural products and can store significant amounts of bulk agricultural
commodities in order to respond to favourable market conditions.
The design and equipment specification for a new terminal of
this complexity is absolutely critical and Bega turned to Siwertell to
ensure that there were no mistakes.
“We invited our partner Siwertell to help us by designing and
The picturesque Lithuanian city of Klaipéda is situated on the
estuary of the Dané River, right at the point where it flows into
the Baltic Sea.
It is the third largest city in Lithuania and its port has always
been of great importance to Baltic seaborne trade, partly due
its status as the foremost ice-free port in the Eastern Baltic.
Today, Klaipéda is one of the busiest and most significant
ports in the region, handling ever increasing volumes of cargo.
Bega, established in 1992, is a major stevedoring company
operating in the port of Klaipéda. The company also provides
forwarding, agency and logistic services.
Bega’s terminal handles more than five million tonnes of cargo
each year and specialises in the handling and storage of liquid
and dry bulk cargo, such as agricultural products and fertilisers.
Dry fertilisers account for the greatest volumes; Bega’s main
clients are fertiliser producers from Russia, Belarus and Lithuania.
In addition to dry and liquid fertilizers and agricultural products,
the company also handles oil, crushed stone, cement and other
dry cargoes.
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4. constructing our new facilities,” says Bega’s Technical Director,
Laimonas Rimkus.
In line with the design brief, the new terminal has more than dou-
bled Bega’s cargo handling capacity to five million tonnes per year and
significantly improved its potential for handling agricultural products.
Using facilities more efficiently
Mr Rimkus explains how Bega has benefited since its new terminal
was commissioned.
“Thanks to the terminal’s rail loading and unloading station, we no
longer have to store bulk material for export in railway wagons, as
we were forced to do in the past. The powerful new Siwertell cargo
handling equipment means we can load large vessels directly from rail
wagons and from the warehouses.”
This means that rail wagons are used more efficiently; loaded
wagons arriving can be discharged into the storage facility and then
loaded with an onward agricultural cargo.
Mr Rimkus says it is no longer necessary for Bega to limit its
agricultural operations to a particular season, which is normally the
case for grain export.
“Now that we have the capacity to store agricultural products in
our warehouses, the terminal will be in active use throughout the
year, meeting the fluctuating market demands for grain, soybean meal
and other feed derivatives.”
He says the terminal’s built-in functional flexibility allows Bega to
provide all the functions of a hub-port; it can re-distribute large quan-
tities of bulk material from vessels such as post-Panamax type bulk
carriers, not only by road and rail, but also by smaller vessels covering
the Eastern Baltic region. Customers appreciate the improved service
and it saves them money.
Linking warehouses
The Siwertell designed Bega complex includes two linked warehouses
with a total floor area of 20,000m2 and a storage capacity of 160,000m3
.
To segregate the different types of cargo, the warehouses are
divided into eight compartments. A covered loading and unloading
station for rail wagons and road transport is linked to the warehouses.
Agri-bulk cargo arriving at the terminal by rail wagons or trucks is
tipped into four underground receiving hoppers. The four hoppers
are served by two separate intake lines – each with a capacity of 500
tonnes/hour – so two types of cargo can be received simultaneously.
The bulk material is conveyed to one of the eight compartments
in the two warehouses by fully automated overhead belt conveyors,
according to a sequence set by the operator in the control room.
Mr Ojeda notes that the terminal is very flexible, and can also
receive many types of bulk cargoes arriving by sea.
Bulk material arriving in this way is transferred, via a rail-mounted
travelling hopper, to an underground conveying line with a capacity
of 1000 tonnes/hour. The cargo can be conveyed directly to the two
warehouses at full conveying capacity. Alternatively, part of the cargo
can be conveyed to one of the warehouses while the remainder
is sent simultaneously to the rail wagon and truck loading station.
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The cargo conveying alternatives do not end there, however.
“Bega also has the option of transferring cargo directly from
the intake to a ship,” says Mr Ojeda.
“This is a very useful capability for small quantities of special
materials that do not require intermediate storage. And of
course it can also be useful if the warehouses are full.”
Bulk material stored in the warehouses can be conveyed to
the Siwertell ship loader on the jetty via belt conveyors, or to
the combined rail/road loading station for transfer to rail wagons
or trucks.
This is achieved by means of pay loaders working inside the
warehouse, feeding the bulk material onto one of two under-
ground conveyor systems with capacities of 1200 tonnes/hour
and 500 tonnes/hour.
The larger system is used for cargo to be loaded onto ships;
the smaller one is used for cargo heading for overhead buffer
bins installed in the loading station for rail wagons and trucks.
Hopper scales
Cargo being conveyed to the shiploader on the jetty is
weighed by a hopper scale installed in a separate weighing tower.
Ships of up to about 70,000 dwt can be loaded at a rate of
1200 tonnes/hour by the rail-mounted ship loader. A system of
mobile conveyors serves the ship loader, allowing loading at any
position along the length of the vessel.
A travelling belt conveyor transfers material from the pier
conveyors to the loader.
As part of the infrastructure necessary to handle the massively
increased cargo throughput, an additional Siwertell ship loader,
capable of handling Panamax vessels at 1200 tonnes/hour, was
installed on a new jetty, where vessels can also be unloaded using
a mobile harbour crane.
An excellent cargo flow solution
Mr Ojeda says the Bega terminal is an excellent example of
the way in which Siwertell uses its comprehensive market lead-
ing understanding of cargo flow solutions in combination with its
tried and trusted hardware to deliver solutions that exactly meet
customers’ needs.
“Our customers operate in competitive markets; when it
comes to major investment in new projects, they need be abso-
lutely certain that the company they turn to for the design and
supply of hardware will do the necessary research and planning
to ensure that the solution works well right from the start.
“At Cargotec, we put in an enormous amount of work before
breaking any ground to ensure that we produce a Siwertell
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operational capabilities and efficiency.”
Cargotec offers bespoke Siwertell solutions for all types
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