ABB lends Adelaide Brighton a helping hand

The pier was damaged on May 4 after it was struck by the Accolade II.
The company approached ABB Grain to see if it could accommodate shipments of limestone through its port at Ardrossan.
Adelaide Brighton Cement is now drawing on ABB’s logistics network to transport limestone from Klein Point, near Stansbury, to Ardrossan, where the rock is put over ABB’s conveyor belts and loaded on to the Accolade II for shipping to Port Adelaide, ABB said.
    “The great thing about providing this help is that we’ve been able to use local businesses and services for this additional work,” ABB’s Yorke Peninsula business manager, Tim Gurney, said.
    “ABB and Adelaide Brighton Cement have come to an agreement where ABB is using its carrier group to move the limestone from Klein Point to Ardrossan.
    "ABB’s engineering division also designed a telescopic spout to go between the shiploader beam and the special hopper which is aboard the vessel.”
    Seven shipments of about 7500 tonnes have sailed from Ardrossan to Port Adelaide so far.
Ardrossan is ABB Grain’s non-grain specialist shipping terminal with up to 600,000 tonnes of dolomite and salt shipped from the ABB-owned port each year, the agribusiness said.
Source: Lloyd’s List Daily Commercial News – www.lloydslistdcn.com.au