Its location and structural features allow operation either by land or from the waterway indistinctively, with the following alternatives:

• Reception and unloading of barges with storage in land tanks for later dispatch to road or barge tankers.
• Reception of road tankers and storage in land tanks for later dispatch to barges.
• Direct unloading from barges to road tankers and from road tankers to barges.

• 34 acre site placed in an area of great industrial development very near of Asunción.
• A 330 yard riverfront on the Paraguay river.
• Berthing facilities with a 50 yard long pier for inland water vessel mooring.
• An adequate fire-fighting system to guarantee the safety of the facility and the operational efficiency (API & NFPA 20 standards)
• Administrative and operative offices
• Land tanks for the storage of hydrocarbons with a nominal capacity of 35.000 m3, built according to applicable regulations and standards for this type of facility.
• Slop tank
• Loading and unloading facilities for road tankers, including pipes and pumps arrangements.
• Automatic system for road tanker loading
• LPG piping for loading and unloading operations.

The access from shore is through a 50 yard reinforced concrete platform integrated with the pier.

For berthing and mooring of barges in loading and unloading operations, the berthing facilities include two dolphins on each side of the pier.

The structure of the dolphins is made of carbon steel piles filled with reinforced concrete, based on the riverbed. The dolphins and the pier include an elastic fendering system and antifriction plates.

On the pier there is a cabin for operational supervision. All electrical installations in this sector are explosion-proof.

All loading/unloading operations are carried out using latest technology light hoses apt for the products to be handled. They are moved to and from the barge by means of a 1.2 Ton crane.

The piping system consists of:

• Pipelines from the pier manifold to the storage tanks
• 12” pipes between storage tanks and pumproom
• Pipelines from pumproom to loading bays
• A 4” pipe between the pier and the slop reservoirs
• Also there are 4” pipelines with flowmeters for vessel bunkering, and 2” pipelines for water supply.

The bays are designed to allow simple and safe loading operations, and they include all measurement and data entry devices, filters, gauges, loading arms, earthing equipment, etc.

All the bays are roofed to allow all-weather operations.
Each loading arm has a maximum loading rate of 135 m3/h.

Each bay has sampling connections and drains

The loading arms for naphtas have all the devices needed for measurement, control and automation for absolute alcohol mixtures.
The top loading bays are supplied with two EMCO WHEATON pantographic ladders per bay and a system of safety belts for risk-free operation.

The loading arms are also EMCO WHEATON, E-0806 model for top loading, and E-304 basic model for bottom loading. All arms are 4”.

All the industrial drainage piping system is connected to these reservoirs built in tandem.
The reservoirs are made of reinforced concrete and are designed to capture oil residues and separate them from the water.

The oil residues are collected by a skimmer and discharged into inspection chambers, and from there they are pumped into a 250 m3 slop tank. This allows the reception of slops from tank cleaning from barges or tankers.

The filtered water produced from this process is delivered to the pluvial drainage system.