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SRCT hits
Botany landside travails continue
at both terminals. Objectives of
the trials will be to:
a71 Support greater transparency of
industry supply chain performance.
2M TEU
Sydney’s Road and Rail Taskforce troduced last November follow- a71Baseline current performance
is hoping a series of Sydney Ports ing a comprehensive review of across the supply chain including
Corporation (SPC)-managed in- Port Botany by the state regulator terminals, carriers and empty parks.
Tidewater Middle East Com-
dustry trials over the next six IPART. The reforms include an a71 Collect data (around peak and
pany (TMEC) has reported
months will lay the foundations off-peak incentive pricing system non-peak time periods) to validate
that Shahid Rajaee Container
for lasting solutions to Port Bota- for truck allocation at terminals, the proposed performance meas-
Terminals (SRCT) in the Port
ny’s landside congestion issues. performance standards for rail and ures in scope for each trial.
of Bandar Abbas broke
Stevedore Patrick’s problems truck turnaround, real time infor- a71 Calculate commercial pricing
through the 2M TEU/year
dealing with unexpectedly high mation systems and a rail logistics implications around operational
barrier for the first time in
volumes at intervals in December team to improve rail efficiency. performance measures and peak
2008, with throughput of
and early January led New South “In bringing forward this leg- pricing.
2,000,230 TEU up by 16% on
Wales Ports Minister Joe Tripodi islation the Government said it a71 Use the information collected as
the 2007 record.
to issue an ultimatum: Improve would allow industry to have the input into other project activities.
“This is the very target we
truck turnaround times or face first chance to address these issues,” a71 Use the trials to validate the in-
had planned for from the be-
government regulation. Tripodi said. “But if delays con- ternal SPC processes to collect,
ginning of last year, relying on
Truck drivers were forced to tinue, we will have little choice but process and report on performance
the inauguration of SRCT2
Truck drivers have faced delays of up to five hours at Patrick’s Botany terminal
wait up to five hours to pick up to introduce regulations to ensure data.
Phase I),” said A Ch Jahan,
containers from Patrick’s Botany our main gateway to the interna- Patrick offered little explana- SPC will provide both daily a71 Use the trials to refine the com-
container and logistics man-
terminal, resulting in long queues tional economy remains open and tion for its performance, other and weekly port performance re- munication approach across the
ager of TMEC, which oper-
along local public roads. efficient. Those regulations will than to say commissioning of its ports for container operations at industry.
ates the facility.
“This situation is completely include penalties for stevedores new RMGs had been beset by Port Botany using information a71 Ensure ongoing refinement of
“We achieved this record
unacceptable to industry, Govern- who fail to service trucks and “complex technical issues.” provided daily by the stevedores processes (refining recording meth-
despite the collapse of trade
ment and the community,” Tripodi trains within a set time.” With tensions easing after the and through contracted staff who ods, templates and reports) based
growth in the current finan-
said. “The truck queues at Port The Minister told industry if clearance of Patrick’s backlog, the are independently collecting data on lessons learnt from each trial.
cial crisis,” Jahan continued.
Botany underline the need for the they were unable to achieve an ac- first of the industry trials was
SRCT2 phase 1 was
reforms we announced last year, ceptable performance in the short launched this month and will run
opened in February 2008, in-
which are now in the process of term, the Government would move until 1 March. The trials are aimed
creasing annual capacity at
being implemented.” immediately to implement the sec- at validating proposed industry-
Iran’s biggest container port to
BLG ups Harms stake
Amendments to New South ond phase of the reform agenda, driven changes, which are due to
3.3M TEU.
Wales’s ports legislation were in- which includes regulation. begin implementation in August.
BLG Logistics Group AG & Co as the record established in 2007.
KG has acquired the 44% stake in In the first half of 2008 through-
E H Harms GmbH & Co KG put was running 10% ahead, but
Automobile-Logistics (EHH) it gradually reduced from August
held by Marcel Harms. BLG has to December.
thereby increased its stake in EHH For 2009, BLG is forecasting
to 94% (the other 6% remains a throughput of less than 2M ve-
with the heirs of Egon H Harms). hicles at Bremerhaven. It has fore-
All EHH affiliates now oper- cast a decrease of about 25% in
ate under the BLG Logistics 1Q/09, but a gradual improve-
name and, also as part of the ment could begin in 2Q/09 and
changes, Ferdinand Möhring and intensify during the second half
Bernd Kupke have been ap- of the year.
pointed managers of BLG In another development, the
AutoTerminal Bremerhaven automotive division has recently
GmbH & Co KG. put into service a new inland ro-
BLG Logistics resports that its ro vessel on the Danube. KELHEIM
automobile business division han- is a 110m long car carrier with
dled and transported a total of capacity for up to 260 vehicles on
5.7M vehicles in 2008, and the three decks. The vessel is fitted
number that it processed techni- with a bow ramp to be opera-
cally increased by more than 10% tionally independent of shore-
on the figure for 2007. based facilities.
The growth in business was The automotive division now
Our
achieved despite the stagnation operates a total of seven inland
from the second half of 2008 on- vessels. Five operate on the Rhine,
ward and was largely due to new and two on the Danube between
contracts for the PDI centres, as Kelheim and the Port of Csepel
innovative
well as doubling of the turnover near Budapest. KELHEIM is carry-
at the Italian terminal in Gioia ing Ford cars from the car termi-
Tauro to almost 350,000 vehicles. nal in Kelhiem to Hungary, while
BLG handled 2.03M vhicles new Suzuki cars are carried on
in Bremerhaven last year, the same the northbound sailing.
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