Cabo Froward Coal Terminal
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The Cabo Froward Coal Terminal is a mothballed coal import terminal located at the Port of Coronel in Biobío, Chile. The terminal historically supplied thermal coal for electricity generation at the Bocamina power station, which was retired in the early 2020s.
Location
The two coal piers of the Cabo Froward Coal Terminal are located just offshore from the coal-fired Bocamina Power Station in the port of Coronel, Biobío, Chile.[1]
Background
The Cabo Froward Coal Terminal was a coal terminal serving the Bocamina power station in Biobío, Chile.[1] The terminal consisted of two separate piers with coal-handling facilities: the older Muelle Jureles, and the newer Muelle Chollín. Both piers appear to have stopped handling coal following the retirement of Units 1 and 2 of the Bocamina coal plant in 2020 and 2022, respectively.
Muelle Jureles, with a coal handling capacity of approximately 1 million tonnes per annum[2], received coal shipments for the original Unit 1 of the Bocamina power station. Muelle Chollín, with a coal handling capacity of 2.5 mtpa[3], began operating in 2011[4], in anticipation of the commissioning of the Bocamina coal plant's second unit in 2012.
Cabo Froward's annual reports show that annual coal throughput approached or exceeded 1 million tonnes on several occasions, reaching a peak of 1,147,942 tonnes in 2018. Coal throughput totals were as follows during the terminal's most active years, from 2011 to 2020:
- 2011: 284,886 tonnes[5]
- 2012: 724,886 tonnes[5][6]
- 2013: 939,254 tonnes[5][6]
- 2014: 221,422 tonnes[5]
- 2015: 281,991 tonnes[5]
- 2016: 1,012,555 tonnes[5][7]
- 2017: 909,016 tonnes[5]
- 2018: 1,147,942 tonnes[5]
- 2019: 1,078,675 tonnes[8]
- 2020: 718,598 tonnes[8]
Following the closure of Unit 2 of the Bocamina coal plant in 2022, Cabo Froward's 2023 report noted that no coal was shipped through the Coronel terminal in 2023, and the company confirmed its intention to diversify the categories of goods handled by the terminal going forward.[9]
Project Details
- Operator: Portuaria Cabo Froward S.A.[4][8]
- Location: Coronel, Biobío, Chile[3]
- Annual Coal Capacity (Tonnes): 2.5 mtpa[3]
- Status: Mothballed[9]
- Start Year: 1995[5]
- Mothballed Year: 2023[9]
- Type: Imports
- Coal source: Colombia, Australia, United States[10]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Estudio de análisis de dos opciones tecnológicas de reconversión de las termoeléctricas y su integración al Sistema Eléctrico Nacional (p 113)" (PDF). Ministerio de Energía. 2021-09-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "RESUELVE CONSULTA DE PERTINENCIA DE INGRESO AL SEIA, PROYECTO: "USO DEL MUELLE CHOLLÍN, PARA TRANSFERENCIA DE GRANELES HISTÓRICOS MOVILIZADOS POR TERMINAL CORONEL" (p 8)". REPÚBLICA DE CHILE - DIRECCIÓN REGIONAL, SERVICIO DE EVALUACIÓN AMBIENTAL, REGIÓN DEL BIOBIO. 2021-04-05.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Chollin Coal Jetty". PRDW (in español). Retrieved 2021-08-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Terminal Coronel, Muelle Chollín". Portuaria Cabo Froward SA. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Memoria Anual 2018 (p 66)" (PDF). Portuaria Cabo Froward SA. 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Memoria 2013 (p 31)" (PDF). Portuaria Cabo Froward SA. 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Portuaria Cabo Froward va por el liderato en la transferencia de graneles en las regiones del Biobío y Los Lagos". MundoMaritimo. 2017-08-21. Retrieved 2026-09-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Memoria Anual 2020 (p 37)" (PDF). Portuaria Cabo Froward SA. 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Memoria Anual 2023 (p 10)" (PDF). Portuaria Cabo Froward SA. 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Ember Shipping Dashboard - Ember". Ember. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
