Material Handling in Ports and Terminals
From stockpile to ship, and everything in between. Port and terminal equipment engineered to run for decades in salt air, storm winds, and 24/7 duty.
Why choose ROXON?
Solutions that runs for decades
ROXON has delivered shiploaders, receiving hoppers, stackers and reclaimers into ports since the 1960s. We are still servicing equipment we delivered in the 1970s and 1980s — and still making spare parts for them.
Engineered for marine conditions
Our structures are dimensioned for a long service life in corrosive marine environments. Offshore-grade paint systems, open-profile steel construction, and storm-wind calculations are standard on all the equipment we deliver.
Lifecycle support
We can help with layout studies and pre-engineering, engineer the final designs, deliver the equipment, and then stay on for modernisations and spare parts for as long as the equipment runs.
Corrosion is the first thing that fails
A port conveyor has to survive things a mining conveyor never sees. Salt air eats through standard paint systems. Urea and sulphur attack steel from the inside if moisture gets trapped in a tubular section. Storm winds load structures sideways.
This is not textbook engineering. It is calculation work that accumulates over decades of delivering into hurricane zones, earthquake zones, and extreme-temperature sites. Our structural team has been solving these extreme engineering-problems for decades.
Solutions for load-out and receiving terminals
Load-out terminals take 24/7 feed from a process plant, store product in a warehouse or yard, and load it onto a ship in a burst of two or three days. The conveyors and stackers run continuously and the shiploader runs hard for 48 hours. Both have to work at 100% reliability and availability when the ship is at the berth to avoid costly delays.
For load-out terminals we deliver conveying, feeding, stacking, weighing-equipment integration, and ship, rail, and truck loading. For receiving terminals we deliver receiving hoppers built to take grab-crane discharge, and the conveyors that move product to storage.
Rated for extreme conditions
Port structures need balance calculations that account for wind loads most engineers have never modelled before. One of our recent shiploaders had a customer requirement to stay standing in a 98 m/s storm wind.
We build our marine structures from open-profile steel, so that no water cannot collect inside. This is one of the reasons our structures pass inspection twenty and thirty years on.
Surface treatment is offshore-grade on every component exposed to salt air. Paint-film thickness, primer, and topcoat specification are matched to the material being handled and the climate the equipment will operate in — tropical humidity and Arctic freeze are not the same problem.
Hoppers that withstand drops
Grab-crane discharge into a receiving hopper is one of the hardest duties in bulk material handling. Some materials can freeze into solid blocks that quickly destroy badly designer hoppers.
Long design expertise allows us to solve even such complex issues, for example by placing a purpose-built crusher on the deck to break frozen lumps before they reach the feeder below. Most of our port receiving hoppers are rail-mounted and self-propelled, with their own PLC control.
Talk to our port and terminal specialist
Whether you are planning a new terminal, modernising an existing installation, or specifying equipment for a tender — we are ready to help. Early conversations are the cheapest hours in the project.