Ann: Buckland Project - Native Title Agreement , page-3

re: Ann: Buckland Project - Native Title Agre... I'm completely baffled and I'm hoping someone on the forum can step in and explain how 8Mtpa can possibly be moved using only trucks on a single 180Km road from a single mine to a single barge site. I can't imagine this is going to be a multi-berth operation.

Just the driving (round trip) for a truck is around 4 hrs. So even if you assume it takes 1 minute to load and 1 minute to unload, maximum number of round trips for one truck per day is around 6. That's assuming no down time at all for mechanicals, shift change or refuel.

Even at six trips per day if they are using a 115t truckload that's 690t per day that can be moved by one truck driving 24 hrs around the clock.

At that rate they would need 40 trucks operating 24 hrs around the clock 300 days a year to move the 8Mtpa.

I guess it's mathematically possible - but you would need some sort of perfect loading & unloading system to get trucks in and out both loading and unloading would need to be rapid fire. Does anybody know what industry best practice is for this process - how many minutes does it take to get a 115t truck in & loaded? Or unloaded?