Ship Loaders

TAKRAF ship loaders can be employed across a wide-variety of applications, although they are particularly suited to applications requiring medium to high flow rates that are to be loaded continuously. Our loading systems are able to cover a wide-range of flow rates and/or vessel sizes and our typical systems cover the following sizes:

• Loading capacity: 1,000 t/h to 20,000 t/h
• Vessel size: 5,000 DWT to 350,000 DWT

Our systems are all specifically designed to our client's requirements and incorporate various solutions according to their specific application, including actual site conditions and the minimizing of environmental impact. As a result, no loader is the same and each is specifically designed for purpose.

Our machines thus include radial or linear-type variants with rotating, raising and lowering and shuttle booms and can be delivered as either mobile or fixed. In addition, our ship loaders can be equipped with a variety of different loading chutes depending on specific applications, customer requirements and required environmental compliance.

Our mobile ship loaders include a tripper car supplying material to be conveyed which is generally located either between the rails or beyond the landside running rail of the ship loader. Depending on specific customer and environmental requirements, we are able to shield the tripper car and pier conveyor belt from the external environment with an enclosed pier bridge.

For piers with unilateral berthing and vessels with predominantly upright loading hatches, a non-rotating ship loader with a shuttle boom is employed. In this instance, the tripper car is installed on a separate pier bridge beyond the landside running rail of the ship loader and runs on independent rails.

For applications in which vessels are loaded on a finger pier with double-sided berthing, we are able to equip our ship loaders with a swiveling function. In this instance, the tripper car and pier conveyor belt are located between the rails of the ship loader, with the advantage that the ship loader and tripper car can all run on one rail.

Stationary ship loaders are generally employed in instances where environmentally hazardous material is to be loaded. A significant advantage of these machines is the excellent encapsulation of the feed route so that there is virtually no release of material into the environment. The drawback of these machines is that, in many instances, the vessel must be moved, either forward or back, for the purposes of loading into a different hatch.

Further to the above typical examples, we are able to provide a wide-range of unique or special loaders and/or configurations. An appropriate representation of our ability and competence to deliver such items is the TAKRAF quadrant ship loader.

The quadrant ship loader is based upon a pivot point on a centrally located stationary point and employs a rail travelling mechanism on a circular or linear rail on the seaside. The stationary pivot point has the added advantage of guaranteeing an optimal enclosure of the feed route. Additional support on the seaside rail makes it possible to install long boom lengths, so that, in many instances, shifting of the vessel during loading is minimized or even entirely eliminated. Often, two quadrant ship loaders are positioned in a side-by-side arrangement, so that even large ships can be fully loaded without shifting.

Our machines are generally operated manually, however they are assisted by a variety of various systems including the automatic shutdown of a specific loading sequence or the automatic tracking of the telescopic slide on the fill level within the vessel's hatch. We are also able to equip our machines with a remote control facility that enables the operator to operate the machine directly from the hatches of the vessel so that they are able to maneuver into hatch corners and ensure complete loading of all material.