Al, Watched the video. Really interesting. Pretty vulnerable...

Al,

Watched the video. Really interesting.

Pretty vulnerable system over all. Too many moving parts and also having computers.

It appears that there are 3 loaders used to load train. 7000 tonnes in each train, so 8.57 trains to load 60,000 tonne ship.

100 wagons in each train.

70 tonnes in each wagon.

It appears that they get 4 buckets per wagon at about 17.5 tonnes each load. 400 buckets per train or 133.3 loads per loader.

Based on 8.4m tonnes pa, then 18 loads an hour per loader 24 hours a day.

The best turnaround of ship at Geraldton has been about 24 hours.

The video was made in early July 2015.