Floating Cement Terminal

a floating cement terminal and cement technology, applied in waterborne vessels, special-purpose vessels, vehicles, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the number of waiting times, overcrowded ports or too small to handle current or increasing volumes, and affecting the supply of cement by cement manufacturers and cement suppliers. , to achieve the effect of reducing the waiting tim
US20100282156A1Inactive Publication Date: 2010-11-1121ST EQUITY HOMES DEV
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
21ST EQUITY HOMES DEV
Publication Date
2010-11-11
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A floating cement terminal includes a floating pontoon, at least one ship docking station, a cement storage warehouse, a cement packing station, a bulk cement loading station and at least one vehicle ramp. The floating pontoon is retained adjacent a land mass. The at least one vehicle ramp allows vehicles access to the floating pontoon from a land mass. Each ship docking station includes at least one ship unloader. The ship unloader removes cement from a docked ship and transfers the cement to the cement storage warehouse. Cement in the cement storage warehouse is transferred to the cement packing station and the bulk cement loading station. The cement going into the cement packing station is loaded into bags. The cement going to the bulk cement loading station is transferred to a plurality of silos for loading into tanker trucks. Electrical power is preferably supplied from a self-contained power source.
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[0001] This is a nonprovisional application taking priority from provisional application no. 2009 / 03149 filed in the South Africa patent office on May 7, 2009.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] 1. Field of the Invention

[0003] The present invention relates generally to the supplying cement and more specifically to a floating cement terminal, which allows a ship to off-load cement at a non-port location.

[0004] 2. Discussion of the Prior Art

[0005] Cement manufacturers and cement suppliers experience numerous problems concerning supply of cement. Manufacturers of cement have limited supply / output capacity in each country. The reason for the limited supply is due to the fact that cement factories are designed to have a certain production or output capacity. Cement Factories / Manufacturers invest usually in the range of $85 million up to $300 million for a cement factory with an annual production capacity of approximately only 2 million metric tons. Ports ...

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