Stacker-Reclaimer Arrives In Mobile

MOBILE, Ala. — A barge carrying a 334-ft-long, 950-T. stacker-reclaimer recently arrived at the docks in Mobile after a 54-day, 3,500-nautical-mi. journey from Ashtabula, Ohio, that city’s Star Beacon publication reported. Bought by the Alabama State Port Authority from Ashtabula Dock Co. for the former’s McDuffie Coal Terminal in Mobile, the Krupp Stacker Reclaimer has been sailing the ocean, St. Lawrence Seaway and Gulf of Mexico since November 23, 2021, at a cost of $8 million. A stacker is a large machine used in bulk material handling that piles bulk material such as limestone, ores and cereals onto a stockpile. A reclaimer can be used to recover the material. In Ashtabula, it was used to move coal. The 550-acre McDuffie Coal Terminal, capable of loading and unloading nearly any form of transport, may now use the 20-year-old machine to reclaim up to 5,000 T. per hour and stack 3,000 T. per hour.