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A dozen machines from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) are boosting fuel economy and smoothing operations for Marine Glory Inc., one of South Korea's largest logistics and plant engineering company importing, supplying and exporting raw chemicals to Korean businesses. The company is using a fleet of EC300E crawler excavators and L180H wheel loader to load and unload salt at Sapo 2 Wharf, Port of Gwangyang in South Korea. 

In 2009, Marine Glory Inc. purchased its first Volvo CE machine — an EC380D excavator. Since then, the company has been so impressed with Volvo machines' performance and durability that they have replaced other competitor brands with all Volvo machines. The company replaces its fleet every three to five years and currently owns 11 EC300E excavators and an L180H wheel loader.

“After operating the EC380D and the wheel loader L180H, we realized that Volvo products have better fuel economy and higher utilization rate as compared to other equipment. So we replaced our 30-ton class excavators with Volvos,” said Sang-yeol Shin, logistics field manager at Marine Glory Inc. “Fuel efficiency has been improved by more than 15% per month as compared to our existing equipment. And the degree of lower part corrosion, which is due to the nature of the salt worksite, significantly improved as compared to other equipment before the replacement.”

The fleet of Volvo CE machines work eight hours daily for 30 days a month, handling 2.3 million tons of salt annually for Marine Glory Inc. The company plans to add an additional wheel loader from Volvo CE at a later stage.  

The E-Series excavators from Volvo CE are designed for the ultimate in strength, durability and wear resistance. The heavy-duty superstructure undercover protects components within the superstructure. For increased durability, heavy-duty undercover plates provide additional protection to the underside of the machine in tough applications – preventing damage from rock and debris. The reinforced idler frame, track links and bottom rollers on the undercarriage are built to withstand tougher conditions for improved durability and reliability in demanding applications. The track links are also reinforced as is the bucket linkage. At the arm end where the most movement and wear occurs, Volvo provides wear plates which are easily replaced in a matter of hours in the field – a service that can't be matched by its competitors. 

“Volvo equipment is more convenient to use and quickly recovers materials when it enters the carrier, which is difficult to accomplish with other equipment,” Shin said. “In particular, Volvo machine's efficiency has helped save demurrage and improved the overall process flow such that economic feasibility of the entire site increased.”

The EC300E features a 178 kW engines and offers a bucket capacity of 0.55 – 2.06 m3, maximum digging reach of 10,710 m, maximum digging depth of 7,340 m and lifting capacity of 11,400 kg. The L180H wheel loader is equippied with a 246 kW engine and offers a maximum loading capacity of 8,728 kg.

Established in 1988, Marine Glory Inc. is based in Yeosu, South Korea. In addition to supplying salt for chemical products, Marine Glory Inc. facilitates treatement of shipping containers, and import and export logistics, plus handles more than 1 million tons of petrochemical materials and liquid cargo for export annually. Marine Glory Inc. purchased all its fleelt of Volvo machines from Volvo Construction Equipment Korea. 

“Our worksite requires quick and seamless workflow throughout the whole operation so we appreciate Volvo Construction Equipment Korea's prompt service and parts supply in rare case of equipment failure,” Shin said