Vale Malaysia Minerals (VMM), a subsidiary of Brazilian mining group
For the German specialist intra-logistics company, the around US$100 million (€80 million) order is the largest order in the conveying and loading systems’ product segment in the company’s history.
Vale intends to set up an iron ore distribution centre in Teluk Rubiah, Manjung District, in Perak. At the facility, iron ore will arrive from Brazil and then be blended and shipped to the customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Vale wants to use the Beumer toughed belt conveyors off the Malaysian coast, in the Strait of Malacca, for transporting iron ore from very large ore carriers to smaller vessels in a specially-designed port and storage facility.
Construction work is already in full swing, and the loading terminals are expected to go into operation in 2014. A second expansion phase will run until 2019.
