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Early success for Botany logistics trials
actual agreed benchmarks at the end of
the trial process. The Minister said the
trial showed 81% of trucks arrived at the
terminals within the Vehicle Booking
The first stage of a three-part programme is aimed at creating around the clock ef- onto this system will save valuable time sis, rather than the traditional measure System time slots, 10% arrived early, 4%
designed to get Port Botany’s landside ficiency, transparency and consistency in and money for industry. The paperless of in-gate to out-gate. arrived late and 5% arrived without a
container logistics chain moving has a bid to reduce truck congestion and system resulted in a 10% improvement It was agreed by the Port Road booking.
brought quick results - not least “full co- freight delays. in average truck turnaround times, com- Taskforce that a trial performance meas- “Looking at container dwell times,
operation from the broader port and lo- Following presentation of the results pared to manual processing. For the urement of 60 minutes would be used 95% of import containers were removed
gistics industries…and a new level of in- of the first trial, the Port Road Taskforce trucking industry, the savings could to baseline current truck processing time within the three days normally allocated
dustry understanding about the need to has agreed to move to paperless process- amount to tens of thousands of dollars from arrival to gate out. On that basis, for pick up, an excellent achievement for
improve operations at the port.” ing at the Patrick and DP World termi- per week and even more in peak demand trial results have shown 83-87% of trucks the industry and in line with world’s best
The New South Wales Government nals during the second half of this year, a periods such as Christmas,” Tripodi said. were serviced within the performance practice,” Tripodi said.
ordered the trials under the auspices of move Ports and Waterways Minister Joe Both Port Botany terminals, empty baseline set, although average truck “The trial demonstrated the steve-
the Port Botany Landside Improvement Tripodi said had the potential for sub- container parks, road transport operators, turnaround times for both terminals was dores’ ability to provide daily communi-
Strategy as the first phase of a process stantial cost savings for truck operators Australian Customs and the Patrick/DP 40-45 minutes. cations and contingency reports in a
that could see mandated changes, includ- and their clients. World EDI joint venture 1-Stop partici- Tripodi stressed this was not an agreed timely fashion. Such was the degree of
ing a two-tiered pricing and access re- “While roughly 40% of trucks were pated in the trial, which benchmarked industry benchmark but merely a trial cooperation that daily terminal opera-
gime, as soon as August. The first trial processed through the paperless system truck turnaround times from queue ar- baseline against which to measure cur- tional reports and contingency report-
(see WorldCargo News February 2009, p8) during the trial, moving more trucks rival to terminal out-gate on a 24/7 ba- rent performance and then help develop ing has now become a permanent fix-
ture.”
Dalian Port
set to buy
Jinzhou
The parent company of Dalian Port Co
will buy Jinzhou port this year, said Xia
Deren, mayor of the northern Chinese
city of Dalian.
“We are ready to take control of
Jinzhou port this year,” Xia said. “We have
the plan and are in negotiations.”
Last year, Jinzhou port officials said
Dalian port would buy an 18.9% stake
for around Yuan1.91B (US$278M) to
become its second-biggest shareholder
and a strategic partner.
Xia also said that Dalian’s February
container throughput fell 10% from a
year earlier, its largest drop ever. “It was
the worst month for the port in history,”
he said.
This year will be another tough year
for the port, as the gloomy world
economy is expected to further damp
cross-border trade, said Xia, adding that
he was hoping to see some signs of re-
covery in the second half of the year.
Dalian port saw its throughput rise
28.3% to 5.45M TEU last year.
Traffic down
at Subic bay
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
(SBMA) is projecting container through-
put at the former US naval base north of
Manila to dip this year by 2.8% to 28,551
TEU, but remains optimistic about pri-
vatising the New Container Terminal-2.
April 14 is the new deadline for the
submission of tenders with the terms of
reference unchanged. If all goes well, the
25-year concession is expected to be
awarded by July.
SBMA officials envisage NCT-2 as an
Asian transhipment hub and are keen to
have an international shipping line run-
ning the terminal, possibly as part of a
consortium and subject to the 40% cap
on foreign equity. Apparently, this would
see NCT-1, currently operated by ICTSI
subsidiary Subic Bay International Ter-
minal Corp (SBITC), handling imports
and exports.
Whether the strategy is workable is
another question. NCT-2 has the same
capacity as NCT-1 (300,000 TEU/year),
which is likely to be too small for a
containership operator looking for a new
logistics hub in the Asian region, such as
COSCO.
The SBMA’s forecast for 2009 may
also be too optimistic given the current
global downturn and Subic’s container
track record. Last year, SBITC cleared
29,370 TEU (part of it at the old NSD
terminal), 15% down on 2007 largely as a
result of Maersk Line scrapping its Subic
service in April and the government re-
stricting used vehicle imports.
Maersk’s departure leaves SBITC with
only three regular clients - APL and Wan
Hai, both calling weekly, and Tasman
Orient, which calls fortnightly.
14 March 2009
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