Transporter gets another ArcelorMittal contract

01 May 2013 - by Staff reporter

Cargo Carriers has been awarded the contract to transport pitch and tar from ArcelorMittal’s Vanderbijlpark plant.
Pitch and tar, a by-product of the steel smelting process, is burnt as a low-cost furnace fuel, but the plants that use it are scattered as far afield as eMalahleni (Witbank), Middelburg, Zimbabwe and Richards Bay. One of the challenges is that the material needs to be maintained at high temperature – if it drops below 200°C, it solidifies into a destructive solid and renders a tanker useless.

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