FPS Melbourne wins steel contract
The Melbourne branch of Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) has secured a contract to handle the import, unpacking and inland delivery of 52 containers loaded with 1,138 tonnes of steel coil, Cargonews Asia reports.
The steel – in 168 coils weighing seven to none tonnes each – arrived in Melbourne on an ANL sailing from China. FPS Melbourne handled the monitoring of the shipment, Customs clearance, collection of the containers from the wharf and transfer to its own 10,000 sq m container freight station and warehouse facility.
The steel requires slitting, before being used in the construction of multi-level commercial buildings. As the slitting mills have no facilities for container handling, FPS is unpacking the coils and loading them onto its own flatbed vehicles. It will require around 50 truck journeys to deliver the steel to the slitting plant 45km away; there, the coil will be craned off, slit, and delivered to FPS’s customer.