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Biport Bulkers Sdn. Bhd will be enhancing its bulk terminal capacity
including tank farm installation and berthing capacity.
The sister company of Bintulu Port Sdn Bhd is developing an additional berth
to cater for the increasing number of calls by palm oil barges to the
terminal at Bintulu Port.
The new 90 m LOA facility will complement the existing 220 m LOA berthing
facility which can accommodate vessels up to 50,000 dwt said the terminal
manager, Datuk Haji Abd Malek Dato’ Demang Hussin.
Abd Malek also said the volume of bulk cargo is expected to rise further as
there would be more oil palm plantation to be developed in Sarawak.
The state government has plans to increase the current acreage under
oil-palm from 450,000 hectares to million hectares by end of Ninth Malaysia
Plan period, with an average of 100,000 hectares to be planted annually for
the next five years.
As such the development of supply driven tank farm facilities at Bintulu
with direct pipeline to the upcoming refineries like Kirana Edible Oil and
Borneo Edible is seen as timely move, said Abdul Malek.
“Currently we have three pipelines for loading various type of palm oil
products from our tank farms and two discharging pipeline. We plan to
increase three additional pipelines for loading and two additional pipe
lines for discharging activities at the terminal by end of October this
year,” said Abd Malek.
He said Biport Bulkers Sdn. Bhd was the only company that specializes in the
storage and the main export outlets for vegetable oils in Sarawak.
He said the company was expanding the current tank farm capacity and would
be developing an additional 24 storage tanks of various sizes and capacity
which will raise the present capacity to75,600 mt from present capacity of
39,050 mt.
Biport Bulkers Sdn. Bhd which started its in 2004 recorded a total
throughput of 339,640 metric tone of liquid cargo with Refined Bleached
Deodorised (RBD) Olein contributing 130,071 metric tonne, RBD Palm Oil
contributing 95,904 metric tonne, Crude Palm Oil 57,755 metric tones and
others contributing 55,910 metric tonne.
Total export by Biport Bulkers for the year under review is 291,156 metric
tonne with 47 vessel calls. |
