The recently opened minerals terminal at the Spanish Port of Santander has already reached its average productivity of 1,500tph (tonnes per hour). It did so whilst discharging coal on behalf of Solvay, whereby productivity was 5% above what had originally been forecast for 2012. The vessel involved had come from Murmansk in Russia, from which 66,000 tonnes of coal had been discharged in 42 hours, equivalent to an hourly average of 1,571 tonnes. The maximum productivity had been in the region of 2,275tph per hour, which is the absolute maximum the terminal was designed to handle.
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