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Tanjung Langsat Port, in Johor,
will be starting full cargo handling operations
in September this year beginning with the first
shipment of bio-diesel products from Nexsol
plant.
The general manager of Tanjung Langsat Port,
Haji Mazlan Othman said the RM75 million Nexsol
plant in Tanjung Langsat industrial area will be
exporting palm-based bio-diesel products through
the port.
Nexsol is a joint venture company between German
based Peter Cremers and Kulim (M) Bhd.
Kulim entered into a venture agreement with
Peter Cremer earlier last year to set up the two
biodiesel plants (one in Tanjung Langsat
Industrial area and one in petrochemical hub of
Jurong Island) to produce bio-fuel and other
downstream derivatives.
To cope with the traffic from Nexsol, Langsat
Bulkers Sdn Bhd is developing a 20,000-tonnes
tank farm facility for biodiesel products within
our port area.
The tank farm on a 2.56 ha land will have direct
pipeline connection to the jetty head.
Tanjung Langsat Bulkers is a joint venture
company with 60 per cent stake owned by Tanjung
Langsat Port and the remaining by Felda-Johore
Bulkers Sdn Bhd.
“We will be ready by September to handle Nexsol
shipments of biofuel and other downstream
derivatives to European market,” said Mazlan
Othman.
The development of tank farm facility would
further strengthen and complement the 480 ha
Biofuel Park at Tanjung Langsat.
Located in the vicinity of the Pasir Gudang
Industrial Estate - the largest concentration of
oil palm refineries in the world with 17
refinery companies with a capacity of 7.0
million tones per year - the Biofuel Park has
the added advantage of easy access to palm oil
as well as inputs from petroleum-based
industries in the area.
The L-shaped twin berth jetty at the Tanjung
Langsat Port is capable of handling vessels up
to 5,000 DWT and 30,000 DWT respectively.
The inner berths draw 285 metres with 11 metres
depth and the outer berths draws 164 metres at
the port. Plans are in pipe line to further
deepen-up the berth depth to cope with arrival
of VLCC for loading and unloading raw materials
and finished products from the tank farm within
the port area.
“We are also developing a tank farm with an
initial capacity to store 100,000 tonnes for
petroleum products following securing a 10-year
deal with Trafigura Beheer BV, an international
trading company to utilize the 100,000 square
metres tank farm.
Trafigura with more than RM3.45 billion in
assets and RM155.25 billion in annual revenue is
involved in the supply and off-take of crude
oil, petroleum products, liquefied petroleum
gas, metals and mental ores and concentrates.
The long-term deal is expected to contribute
positively towards volume of traffic at the
Tanjung Langsat Port.
Trafigura will be the first long-term customer
and investor of the tank terminal here. The
volume generated by Trafugura will propel the
Tanjung Langsat Port into a world-class
logistics, liquid bulk-handling and trading hub
of petroleum and petrochemical products.
Mazlan said the capacity of the tank farm within
the port area will be further enlarged under the
second phase development of the project.
Dialog Group recently sealed an agreement with
Trafigura to develop another 400,000 cubic
metres tank farm to store petroleum and
petroleum-related products. About 4ha of land
adjacent to it will house the centralized tanker
facilities, which will serve the terminal and
other tank terminals to be developed in its
vicinity.
The RM600 million tank farm project also the
first of six nominated services situated within
the Iskandar Development Region.
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