Famous Pacific Melbourne handles complex 1,138-tonne steel shipment

HONG KONG's Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) has announced that its Melbourne, Australia branch has secured a contract to handle the import, unpacking and inland delivery of 52 containers loaded with 1,138 tonnes of steel coil.

The 168 coils weighing seven to nine tonnes each, arrived in Melbourne on an ANL ship 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-square-metre container freight station and warehouse facility.

It said 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, the service provider is unpacking the coils and loading them onto its own flatbed vehicles. It will require 50 truck journeys to deliver the steel to the slitting plant 45 kilometres away, where the coil is being craned off, slit and then delivered to the customer.