Project Pipeline

Port

• Two general cargo berths with an unloading facility for barges, including one for handling petroleum products;
• Four berths equipped with gantry loaders for loading iron ore onto barges;
• A railway loop which is the terminal of the rail transport line for iron ore export and sending supplies to the mine;
• A storage yard for general cargos including construction material during the construction phase; with a spur railway line during the operation phase to load equipment, materials and fuels onto trains to be transported to the Simandou mine;
• An iron ore storage yard equipped with stackers and reclaimers;
• Rotary dumpers to unload the iron ore wagons, connected to conveyor belt systems for handling the iron ore;
• An office building and base camp;
• An electrical station with heavy fuel generators;
• Freshwater supply and distribution system;
• Workshops for maintenance, repair and welding;
• Warehouses for spare parts and consumables;
• A wastewater treatment plant and a settling tank;
• A waste storage area, to be followed by the construction of an incinerator;
• An Oxygen-Acetyline factory within the port limit;
• 4G mobile phone towers, required for communication within the port area, for boats positioning and for communication in the channel and transhipment anchorage; and
• Two quarries for construction materials: one for granite at Senguelen equipped with a crushing station, and one for laterite at Bamboro.