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Bucyrus Builds From The Ground Up –
And Down
– To Become AWorld-Leading
Mining Equipment Manufactu
rer
B
ucyrus International, Inc. has built a global
reputation for providing innovative solutions to
big mining jobs. At the Port of Baltimore, the focus
is on providing innovative solutions to moving
Bucyrus’ big equipment.
A world leader in the design and manufacture of high-
productivity equipment for the mining industry, Bucyrus
produces surface equipment that is used for mining coal,
copper, iron ore, oil sands and other minerals. The company’s
underground equipment is used primarily for mining coal and
is also used in mining minerals such as potash and trona.
“Their surface and underground mining machinery offers
challenges that we are uniquely capable of handling,” noted
Lew Vrinios, Maryland Port Administration (MPA) Midwest
Business Development Manager. “The Port of Baltimore
handles their containers, over-dimensional breakbulk and
heavy-lift cargoes. We have provided heavy lifts on various
occasions for freight weighing in excess of 190,000 lbs.”
According to Bucyrus Corporate Traffic Manager John
Georgeson, the company has utilized Baltimore when ship-
ping such items as electric mining shovel parts and dragline
parts. An entire shovel might cost up to $25 million, and a
dragline’s price tag ranges from $65 million to $190 million.
“The largest pieces we move are the continuous
miners,” Georgeson added, referring to a ferocious-looking
machine used for underground mining applications and
produced at the company’s Houston, Pa., plant. Continuous
miners can scrape several tons of coal per minute from a
mine’s seam. “They are not so much oversize as they are
heavy — somewhere around 70 tons,” Georgeson said.
Bucyrus is aligned by service contracts with Hamburg
Süd when handling containers bound for South America and
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics America for breakbulk heading
to Australia. “We route cargo through the Port of Baltimore
At-
A
-Glance
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Bucyrus has approximately 10,000 employees and
nearly 100 locations around the world.
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More than 70 percent of the company’s sales come
from outside the United States.
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Following the February 2010 acquisition of Terex
Mining, Bucyrus now has the most expansive product
offering in the
mining market.
BY BLAISE WILLIG
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