{"id":57089,"date":"2013-05-23T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=57089"},"modified":"2013-05-23T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:32:04","slug":"largest-vessel-loaded-in-freetown-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=57089","title":{"rendered":"Largest Vessel Loaded in Freetown Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 12 May 2013 the Panamax vessel, MV ALAM PESONA, left Freetown harbour carrying over 83,000 tonnes of London Mining\u2019s iron ore concentrate, the largest quantity ever to have been loaded in the harbour, vindicating the decision by the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) to authorize additional draft at the port. Sailing at a tide of 3.60 metres and a draft of 14 metres, the vessel exceeded the SLPA\u2019s previously recognised draft at the harbour by nearly 10%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This achievement tops an excellent start to 2013 by London Mining at its Marampa operations, which has seen record production and sales volumes for the first quarter, with production of iron ore concentrate up 29% on the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57090\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/London-Mining.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57090\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57090\" alt=\"London Mining\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/London-Mining.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MV ALAM PESONA<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">London Mining continues to expand its export capability; the arrival in April of the first of two sea-river vessels to carry concentrate-fines down the efficient Port Loko\u2013Freetown marine channel is helping London Mining achieve an annualised export rate of over 6 million wet tonnes per annum, while the commissioning of the \u2018Pride of Marampa\u2019 floating offshore transhipment platform allowed loading of ungeared vessels to commence at the end of March, which further increased export capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hailing the efforts of the staff the company Managing Director (MD), Daniel Pop said, \u201cAs part of a programme of continuous improvements we are constantly reviewing and increasing logistics capability.\u201d MD Pop also paid credit to the SLPA observing that, \u201cTheir co-operation has been crucial in helping London Mining meet its export targets from Sierra Leone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 May 2013 the Panamax vessel, MV ALAM PESONA, left Freetown harbour carrying over 83,000 tonnes of London Mining\u2019s iron ore concentrate, the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":32480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[10225,2456,3077],"class_list":["post-57089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-daniel-pop","tag-london-mining-company","tag-marampa-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}