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From: Bruce
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Remote Name: 98.118.177.22
Date: 11.01.09
Time: 08:14:20 AM
Unloads can be long because Nanticoke has a stacker used to pile the coal on the dock from boats. The dock also uses the stacker to reclaim coal for the plant. If the plant needs to move coal around to feed itself the boat may not be able to unload or they may send the coal from the boat directly into the plant. Plants can't take coal anywhere near as fast as a boat can unload it directly into a pile on the ground. Any boat, 1000 footer or not, may have a long unload if this is the case. Steel mills that use hoppers have the same problems. Also any dock that uses a stacker may have to stop the unload to move the stacker. It can take a long time to move a giant stacker from one pile to another. Sometimes the dock may put a small portion of the cargo in one pile, another portion on another pile, ect, ect. This can add significant time to the unload.
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