Recent Projects
Within the past year, Westshore Terminals completed the last phase of an ambitious, three-year $49 million capital upgrade project. The first phase, completed in 2007, saw the extensive addition of conveyors and ancillary equipment to Westshore's 133-acre (54-hectare) site.
The second phase, completed in 2008, involved the installation of a replacement rotary dumper capable of handling two of the new lightweight aluminum rail cars at the same time.
The final phase involved the on-site assembly and commissioning of Westshore's fourth stacker-reclaimer. With this new equipment, Westshore has the ability to maximize on-site storage, accelerate unloading of inbound coal train shipments and efficiently reclaim and shipload outgoing coal volumes.
All four stacker-reclaimers will be automated when software and equipment installation is completed in the first half of 2010. Operators are currently being trained and acclimatized to the new automatic set up, which will help Westshore realize solid cost savings through labour cost reductions and improved equipment productivity. This, combined with the installation of new conveyors and the recent upgrade to a tandem rotary railcar car dumper, has resulted in a significant increase in Westshore Terminals' total handling capacity, from 24 million tonnes per year to 29 million tonnes.