BERTHS 70-71 BULK CHEMICAL TERMINAL
Port of Los Angeles, California

Cash & Associates provided project management and engineering for design and construction of a new bulk liquid chemical storage facility to support West Coast and Southeastern United States operations for Eastman Chemical Company.  The new Eastman storage facility was built by and is operated by Westway Terminal Company within their existing San Pedro terminal under a long-term contract.  The state-of-the-art facility includes 28 tanks, ranging in size from 40,000 to 50,000 gallons, used for storage of solvents, plasticizers and alcohols.  Vapor collection and nitrogen blanketing systems are provided for all tanks.  Rail cars are unloaded from a single spur track with individual top-mounted unloading lines for 28 products.  A multi-bay automated on-scale truck loading rack provides the capability to load multiple products on the same truck without moving to a separate scale.  Project design included spill containment walls around the entire tank farm as well as secondary containment walls around small tank groupings.  Future provisions for additional storage tanks, dedicated product lines and unloading pumps were incorporated into project designs.  This facility meets all Federal, State and local government regulations relating to design, containment, fire protection, and control of emissions.



PIER G, BERTHS 212-215 - TERMINAL & WHARF UPGRADES
Port of Long Beach, California

The Port of Long Beach selected the Sandwell Engineering, Inc./Cash & Associates Team to design various terminal improvements to achieve compliance with Southern California Air Quality Management District Rule 1158 requirements related to the control of fugitive coke, coal and sulfur dust resulting from terminal operations.  Improvements included, but were not limited to, enclosure of existing open conveyors and truck dumpers, a new truck dumper and washdown facility, a new waste petro coke storage building, and replacement of an existing shiploader.

Cash & Associates was responsible for civil, structural and architectural design services, and project permitting for terminal upgrades and modifications.  Responsibilities included design of upgrades to a 590 LF section of the terminal's existing 45 year old concrete wharf and a new shiploader support structure to allow installation of a new $9.3 million 78’ gauge traveling bulk shiploader to be used for loading of petroleum coke, calcined coke and sulfur prills. Due to the high potential for seismically induced soil liquefaction at the site, a 3D finite computer model of the wharf was developed and used for extensive engineering analyses. In addition to wharf modifications, these analyses identified the need for a shiploader support structure.  The support structure provides vertical and lateral support for the shiploader and lateral support for the existing wharf.  Design also provided seismic upgrade of the wharf.  The new shiploader meets the requirements for control of fugitive dust and gives the Pier G Terminal the capability to load today’s larger bulk cargo ships.

Cash & Associates also provided engineering services to the Pier G Terminal Operator, Metropolitan Stevedore Co., under a separate, concurrent project for terminal rail car dump facilities.



IMPORT CEMENT TERMINAL
Port of Redwood City, California

Cash & Associates provided civil and structural engineering under a design/build project format to construct a new $10M cement terminal that replaced an existing outmoded terminal.  Project components included a new concrete pier; concrete pile-supported platform for the ship unloader; stationary 800-ton per hour cement unloader mounted on a fixed pier; 650' long conveyor system (ship to cement silo); multiple mooring/berthing dolphins with marine fenders and an access catwalk; 20' wide access bridge maintenance, operation, fire trucks and other vehicles; pier utilities; and dredging. The new terminal accommodates post-Panamax vessels and provides the capability to handle approximately 843,000 tons of imported cement annually.  With an unload rate of 800 tons per hour, the terminal allows vessels carrying 30,000 to 53,000 tons of cargo to complete unloading operations within 3 to 5 days compared to the previous 12 to 15 days for the old terminal.  This improved unloading capability provides significant cost savings.



EDISON PIPELINE PETROLEUM TERMINAL CONCEPT STUDY
Ports of Long Beach & Los Angeles, California

Cash & Associates prepared a Concept Study to evaluate the feasibility of constructing a new liquid bulk fuel terminal capable of accommodating 85,000 through 375,000 DWT tankers.  The study involved two potential project sites, Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles and Pier T in the Port of Long Beach.  Terminal components included wharf and loading platform, petroleum pipelines, product pumping equipment, surge tanks, marine loading arms, containment vessel and boom, gangways, cranes, utilities, environmental systems, and backlands improvements.  Work included review of local petroleum terminal operations and amenities, existing site amenities and geotechnical constraints, adjacent site operations and potential conflicts; development of berthing, mooring, dredging and environment requirements; and research to identify existing and required utilities, and requirements for Client-specified marine loading arms.  A comprehensive written report was prepared with preliminary design data, calculations, site plans and conceptual layouts, conceptual cost estimates for each site, and site comparison data.