Techint, partner to resume material handling project at Tanjung Jati B

Italian engineering service company Techint Technologies and Black & Veatch of USA have come to an agreement for the resumption of the contract for the supply of two 1,500-ton per hour (tph) capacity grab ship unloaders and two 1,500 tph stacker reclaimers for the Tanjung Jati B coal fired power plant, located near Jepara, Central Java province.

?The contract signed in 1997 was frozen one year later due to the Indonesian financial crisis and most of the already manufactured components were kept in a special warehouse in Italy,? Techint said recently.

According to Techint, the two shipunloaders have an outreach of 35 meters, a rope load of 30 tons and can unload ships up to 70.000 DWT. The stacker/reclaimers have a boom length of 40 meters, a stacking capacity of 1500 tph and a reclaim capacity of 1000 tph.

Techint Technologies machines are now ready for shipment and their start-up is scheduled for middle 2004, the company added.

Construction of the 200-billion yen power project was restarted in August last year, after the former investor Hopewell agreed to sell its stake in the power plant to Sumitomo Corp for US$306 million in cash.

The 2x660 MW power plant is scheduled to start supplying power in 2006 and it will operate by a wholly owned Sumitomo subsidiary, PT Central Java Power (CJP).

According to Sumitomo, CJP will then enter into a 20-year long-term lease with state-owned electricity firm PLN, under which PLN will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the power plant during the lease period.(robert)