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> Business Rules > OOCL At POAL > IP On Track 2009May All issues of interconnect FOCUS: magazine are available on www.axis-intermodal.co.nz FROM THE DESK OF CRAIG SAIN GENERAL MANAGER SALES & MARKETING CONTENTS PAGES OF FOCUS Market changes and responses. 2 - 3 It has taken longer

OPERATIONS REVIEW to hit than in many Business Rules & how they work; 4 - 5 New role for Customer Service. other countries, but the global recession FACE TO FACE WITH Peter Sutherland of OOCL NZ. 6 - 7 is being felt in New Zealand. AXIS INTERMODAL NEWS In the first three months of 2009, POAL Events and product updates. 8 - 9 saw container volumes drop 7.4% compared to 2008. Although this volume decrease is lower KIWIRAIL than that experienced by a large number New rail shuttle for Wiri Inland . 10 - 13 of overseas ports, like many other New Zealand companies, we are taking a fresh look at how we run our business, MARKET ROUND-UP with the objective of being as lean and Container trade news & moves. 14 - 15 efficient as possible. Tough times require prudence, but we must also challenge ourselves to think AXIS DIRECTORY Back Page innovatively and to look for exciting opportunities. We are determined to emerge from the current recession a stronger and more agile company. In late April POAL began consultation with staff over a major proposal to reorganise our operations.

2 FOCUS: Under the proposal we would berth the Since the proposal was announced I to vessels on the berth. Unnecessary majority of visiting container ships at our have received positive feedback and container moves are caused when newly expanded Fergusson terminal, and constructive suggestions from many containers are delivered earlier than FROM THE DESK OF base all stevedoring staff there. of our customers. The input has been needed, or after the cut off time, appreciated and will be factored in to requiring additional yard moves before CRAIG SAIN The proposal offers significant benefits our final decisions about how to move loading onto the vessel. There are also GENERAL MANAGER to both POAL and our customers, forward, which will be announced in ongoing challenges preventing cargo SALES & MARKETING through increased efficiency, enhanced mid-May. April also marked the formal being loaded onto the intended vessel PORTS OF AUCKLAND labour utilisation and the removal of introduction of our new business due to not having a CEDO or a last-minute unnecessary cost from the supply chain. procedures, following feedback from change to shipping instructions. One of the big attractions of the Shipping Line customers on a two-month While these new procedures are not proposal is how it would help decrease trial of the new processes. an overnight fix, we are starting to see the variability of demand for labour. The new procedures include export positive results already, with greater We propose handling as many containers demurrage for containers received awareness of the rules resulting in a as possible at Fergusson. This would earlier than the standard free time, sustained improvement in crane rate. mean more ongoing, consecutive work, and a new process for handling late I appreciate the efforts that many cargo making it easier for us to put more cargo delivery requests. We have also owners have made to understand the new labour on vessels when they commence tightened our handling of CEDOs, system, and I’d like to encourage more or complete part way through a labour vessel load lists and increased cargo to register for our Shipment Management shift. In addition, should a customer’s status transparency through our online System (SMS). We are looking forward vessel be early or late, we would have systems. to developing stronger relationships with the capacity and extra resource to Our objective is to minimise the number our customers as the new system and service it at Bledisloe. of wasted container moves within our processes bed in. terminals – increasing productivity

Graduate Leadership Development Programme Ports of Auckland’s Graduate A unique programme among NZ ports. coal-face working with Jonathan Hulme Leadership Programme recently POAL’s Graduate Programme has a in Container Terminal Operations. celebrated its first major framework and focus on developing A key element in the Programme’s milestone when the inaugural leadership. The graduates engage in success is its mentor Sandy Gibson. graduates completed the two a 24 month rotation schedule working year programme. They are Colin in three or four of the Port Company The former head of POAL’s container Tasi and Julian Clarke. While departments moving between operational terminal operation, Sandy has a wealth they embark on their chosen new and special project roles. of knowledge and experience in the ports careers, the second year graduate This year’s two new graduate arrivals and shipping industry. He was recently intake – Vikrant Saraf and Matthew are Jesse-Lee Thomson-Cowley and awarded the Norman Spencer Memorial Kidman are working their way Antony De Pont. Jesse has started in the Award for services to the Industry around the port in their second Marketing team with General Manager by the Chartered Institute of Logistics year of the programme. Craig Sain while Antony is at the and Transport.

3 OPERATIONS REVIEW:

NEW BUSINESS RULES • Both the late and the No CEDO containers charge. We can however offer the alternative will be transferred to storage until a new of Wiri, our Inland Port where exporters can Effective 1 April 2009, Ports of Auckland vessel has been nominated by the shipping deliver cargo for storage as early as they like (POAL) has tightened up its recently line. For all these boxes an export and those containers remain there until they introduced Business Rules governing demurrage charge will apply after seven are transferred to seaport for ship arrival. stricter procedures for the delivery and days. loading of full export containers to the POAL Managing Director Jens Madsen Axis Intermodal container terminals. To support the pre-notification process says the new Rules are all about ‘lifting our The Rules cover three sections: early required to fulfil the Business Rules, Axis game, working smarter and having better delivery, late delivery and the supply of Intermodal has introduced a new online forward planning’. “We cannot allow a few CEDO information. system called The Shipment Management late or early export container deliveries to System (see Pgs 9, 10 & 11). After a two month trial and consistent undermine the successful application of with market practice in New Zealand As Axis Intermodal General Manager these new world-best practice procedures.” and Australia, POAL has now introduced Operations & Productivity Grant Jorey He said that among the new practices ‘dual penalties and fees to be applied when explains, the stricter rules are designed to cycling’ at the Port meant vessels were procedures are not followed: enable better forward planning, to position being unloaded and loaded in the same cycle rather than sequentially. “The results we are • Early or late containers MUST now be containers optimally, to make fewer getting from dual cycling, combined with pre-advised with an E-Note via the Axis container moves and to plan wharf space other new initiatives including the twin-lifting Intermodal web site. more intelligently. of containers, dual direction strad driving • Exporters delivering containers earlier than/ “In this way we can improve crane and and our Vehicle Booking System, are lifting outside of the free period which is seven straddle productivity which allows faster the Port’s productivity levels to new highs,” days prior to estimated vessel arrival time, turnaround of our customers’ ships” he he said. will be charged an export demurrage fee says. He explains that late delivery of ranging from NZ$8-NZ$35 per TEU containers has a hugely detrimental effect “These new procedures, on top of the gains depending on how early the box is delivered. on efficiency and timely loading of vessels we are already making, will give us the advance information and discipline we need • For containers delivered later than 12 hours not least because they require multiple prior to ship’s arrival, approval from the straddle moves which is inefficient. to be world class.” shipping line is now mandatory and must be CUSTOMER SERVICE provided when advising POAL of the late “The ‘No CEDO – No Load’ rule means we delivery. Without such approval, these cannot load those boxes onto the ship until Ports of Auckland Transport Manager Jon containers will be accepted into the terminal we have the CEDO. In some cases that Ward has this year taken on a considerable but will not be loaded. can mean the ship is kept waiting at berth role expansion with additional responsibility and the cranes remain idle.” He says early for Operations Planning and Customer • NZ Customs requires all export containers container deliveries also create additional to be CEDO (Customs Export Delivery Order) Service. In this newly created position he approved before loading. For load planning and unnecessary cargo moves thus adding is responsible for planning, despatch and purposes, electronic CEDOs must be sent to to supply chain costs. “They take up control for the port’s two container terminals, Axis Intermodal no later than two hours prior valuable space at our seaport where the Axis Fergusson and Bledisloe. Over the last to vessel arrival. container terminal is a finite space. We 12 months work has progressed on the don’t have capacity to store cargo free of closer alignment of the two terminals with 4 the aim of creating a seamless container “With Planning now located centrally it Because of the new Business Rules terminal operation supported by the same made sense to give customers a single we are also interacting with our operating systems, a single labour team point of contact which will bring a much clients more frequently and so these and centralised planning. improved information flow about all issues increased interactions need centralised Jon Ward’s newly created position as at the port” explains Jon Ward. “This management” he says. Manager Operations Planning & Customer streamlining of our customer service Jon Ward joined POAL in 2007. Service, coincides with the combination of delivery is very timely; with the introduction Capacity and Planning Teams in the new of our new Business Rules, we are dealing He was formerly Director Operations centralised Control Tower at the port where with a broader range of customers from with Hapag-Lloyd and has also held Despatch and Cargo Co-ordinators are also shipping lines to trucking companies to senior positions with CP Ships in accommodated. exporters and importers. Australia and ANZDL in the USA.

Jon Ward Grant Jorey

5 FACE TO FACE WITH: PETER SUTHERLAND

From 1996 OOCL operated as a slot charterer on Singapore carrier PIL which had launched a new South East Asia/NZ service with Malaysian line MISC.

In the prevailing shipping industry turbulence of OOCL NZ 2005/2006, Maersk’s purchase In 2009 Orient Overseas of PONL and the demise of the Container Line – aka OOCL, historic NZ/Middle East service, Peter Sutherland. celebrates its 40th anniversary of opened a window of opportunity containerisation. Since its first for OOCL and partners, to After 30 or more years in Australia, OOCL took its time coming to NZ ship reached the US and Europe introduce a new South East Asia then? in 1947, the Hong Kong owned service. OOCL used the PS: ‘Not in OOCL terms! They generally Line now provides some 80 opportunity to introduce its own take a very cautious approach. We had services covering the major vessel on the NZ trade for the already looked at entering the trade with international trading lanes and first time. our own tonnage on various occasions markets. On many of these routes since starting the slot-charter it operates as a member of the OOCL New Zealand General arrangement, but the timing was crucial and since we preferably deploy our Grand Alliance consortium. Manager Peter Sutherland talks services within a consortium environment, to Interconnect about OOCL’s we also had to take into consideration After a 35 year presence in entrée to the NZ market and the which partners we actually wanted to set Australia, OOCL did not develop this up with. So, when the right opportunity its own operation in New Zealand establishment of its own NZ came along we were able to take it. operation with Head Office in until 2006. Prior to that the Line That opening came of course after the was represented in NZ by McKay Auckland and a South Island Maersk/PONL takeover. Maersk already Shipping Agencies. sales presence. had its own South East Asia service while

6 in their established service PIL and MISC operates the 2,500 TEU OOCL Although OOCL is headquartered in were losing PONL. Combining all of the Melbourne. We have a weekly service in Hong Kong, the Line mainly tranships above, it didn’t take OOCL, PIL/MISC and which we now call Auckland inbound, over Singapore is that correct? MOL/NYK too long to take advantage of Lyttelton, , Napier and PS: Correct. OOCL is an international the situation and to launch a nine-vessel . This is working well for us. dual loop connecting NZ with SEA. Obviously the Auckland call means we are container transport and logistics provider. participating in NZ’s major import market Over our Singapore hub we link into Grand It was the opportunity for OOCL to with Auckland taking at least 70% of all Alliance services and our own feeder introduce its own vessel. Loop 1 was NZ imports. From Auckland we discharge networks to cover Asia, Europe, North operated by PIL and MISC with five then load exports and coastal cargo on a America and Australasia. vessels calling Port Klang/Singapore/ Sunday and sail on a Monday. We’ve Brisbane/Auckland/Napier/Lyttelton/ OOCL has announced that it will slash enjoyed high level reliability with our Wellington-Nelson /Brisbane/Port Klang. capacity by 20% overall this year. service at Ports of Auckland with no delay OOCL, MOL and NYK took care of Loop 2 Will the NZ trade be affected? issues whatsoever. in which four vessels called Lyttleton and PS: Not at all. The NZ trade is unique. Tauranga. OOCL deployed the OOCL How have you succeeded in obtaining Basically the world needs food and other Acclaim – a 1,400 TEU vessel. At that customer support as a newcomer to commodities that NZ supplies. So we see a time it was appropriate for us to establish the NZ market ? good export volume result for the year our own operation in NZ and we opened overall – and especially right now in the our Auckland office in 2006.’ PS: We’ve done a lot of door knocking and familiarisation about OOCL to the NZ peak export season. The big ‘R’ of course How has the service bedded down? market. Our priority was reefer; we have has impacted on imports but we still need 300 plugs on The Melbourne – obviously essential imports and OOCL has maintained PS: ‘Around this time last year when a good share of the inbound cargo. So, shipping services on all the trades were we could always do with more during definitely no reduction in OOCL capacity on subject to major rationalisation, the peak season however we’ve been able to the NZ trade. On the contrary, the partners agreed to rationalise the SEA satisfy the reefer demand and get high introduction of The Melbourne as larger service which was probably over utilisation for our reefer allocation. The tonnage in our service, demonstrates our tonnaged. From nine ships we reduced to Melbourne is highly 40ft friendly and that’s commitment to the NZ market and the fact five. While MISC remained a consortium been good for us with the big commodity partner it opted to buy slots rather than exporters including dairy and sawn that we have longer-term plans for our operate its own vessels in the service. timber. involvement in this trade.’ The single loop service is now operated by two vessels from PIL and one each from MOL, NYK, OOCL. The weekly schedule now operates Singapore/Port Klang/Brisbane/Auckland/Lyttelton/ Wellington/Napier/Tauranga.’ So did that represent a considerable capacity decrease overall? And how was frequency and port rotation affected? PS: ‘There was some reduction in capacity but not to the extent that service levels for NZ shippers were seriously OOCL has introduced the 2,500 TEU OOCL Melbourne onto the NZ service. affected. In the revised service OOCL now

7 AXIS INTERMODAL NEWS:

New Shipment SMS helps customers to: “Real-time data and interactive • Register export containers communication enables customers to advise container arrivals, shipping lines to approve Management • Check export details against late arrivals and to set up auto-tracking System shipping line’s booking information with email notification when a container • Pre-advise POAL of the delivery of export event happens. It accounts for the special To support its new Business containers requirements and focus of all the parties in Rules for the delivery and • Request shipping line approval for the Supply Chain involved with the delivery loading of export containers late delivery of container after cut-off and loading of the container.” (see pgs 4 & 5) Ports • Note the shipping line’s response Finn Jensen says that in the future SMS will be developed further as the central of Auckland (POAL) has • Track the containers after they have repository and source of all information to been loaded introduced an electronic support POAL’s continuously expanding Shipment Management • Request auto-tracking to receive advice range of cargo management tools for System (SMS). when containers are delivered and shipping lines and export communities. loaded A ground-breaking NZ container • View all shipment details as well terminal e-Commerce advance, as vessel arrival and departure SMS at www.axis-intermodal.co.nz schedules merges data from shipping lines, • Check if container has been NZ Customs, and road and rail CEDO cleared carriers with the POAL database to • Request other Port and Terminal enable interaction with customer services such as fumigation input, tracking and container status and weighing. information. Project Manager Finn Jensen describes SMS as “an easy to use system that builds on existing Axis-Intermodal electronic processing systems to enable both shipping lines and customers to follow their containers throughout the supply chain from the factory until they have been loaded and the vessel departed.

8 BUNKERING HIGHLIGHT Deeper and Deeper With state of the art operational and customer service menu. “Security Following the deepening of its major environmental design features, a of fuel is important particularly for approach Rangitoto shipping Channel new tanker will soon be providing cruise ships whose average range is in 2007, Ports of Auckland has lodged bunkering services to Ports often only 10-14 days. Their ability to a Resource Consent application to of Auckland cruise ships and access re-fuelling services in Auckland deepen one of the ship berths at commercial shipping line customers. is essential to ensure they continue Fergusson container terminal. The The newbuild tanker will arrive in calling here.” deepening of the Rangitoto Channel Auckland mid-year after her maiden Wayne Mills revealed that when the voyage from Turkey. has enabled POAL to offer shipping tanker enters service in NZ, POAL lines wider tidal windows and to cater The tanker will be operated by Shell will be the only NZ port (other than for 6,000 TEU vessels. NZ under contract to Seafuels, a joint the Marsden Port Refinery itself) to venture company between POAL and offer 380CST fuel as well as 180CST. Currently the largest container ships Pacific Basin, a leading commercial “While some other NZ ports offer calling Auckland are 4,100 TEU dry bulk, towage and RoRo shipping 180CST, our additional 380CST but POAL Managing Director Jens company. The 80 metre double hull offering will provide a fuelling option Madsen says one effect of the global tanker, with its 25,000 barrels of oil for our shipping line customers. This recession may be that as shipping lines capacity, will operate a bunkering shuttle is a major innovation and one we consolidate their operations, larger service between the oil refinery at feel confident will be of assistance container vessels may arrive in NZ Marsden Point and customers’ ships at to many of the lines calling Auckland earlier than previously anticipated. “We their berths at Ports of Auckland. especially our cruise ship customers are applying for the Resource Consent POAL General Manager Port Services and for vessels trading in the Pacific now so that we will be in a position to Wayne Mills says bunkering is a vital Islands as re-fuelling in the Islands can move quickly to construct the deeper service on the Ports of Auckland be expensive and restrictive at times”. berth when needed” he explained.

9 THE RESURGENCE

Rail in New Zealand To the constraints that would much greater accessibility to rail for came full circle restrict any chance of achieving these many shippers especially exporters of goals and growth targets, KiwiRail perishable and chilled product. “The in July 2008 when is now moving towards addressing challenge for KiwiRail now is to work after 16 years, the major challenges including equipment, in with exporters, shipping lines and country’s rail and capacity, weight and network issues. cargo interests to see how rail can ferry services were Inheriting an ageing fleet of 149 better serve their needs. With the rail locomotives – the youngest being 20 network widening there are going to be again returned to years old – KiwiRail has made an initial many more opportunities for distributing public ownership. outlay of NZ$75 Million on the rail cargo to and from North Island ports. operation’s first new locomotives for As shipping lines look at rationalising Most recent among the NZ rail 20 years. The 20 new locos will all be services and making fewer port calls, company’s private owners was delivered by August next year. KiwiRail rail’s increased ability to position cargo Australian logistics company claims that one of these new generation will be opportune” he said. Toll which acquired TranzRail in locomotives can pull the equivalent 2003. From Toll Rail the operating freight of 65 trucks. company was rechristened NEW RAIL CONNECTION SETS WIRI KiwiRail; rail track ownership and An equally old wagon fleet of between INLAND PORT ON TRACK maintenance now comes under 25 and 30 years, is gradually being The Ports of Auckland Vision is to be the OnTrack in a newly formed State replaced with 100 new generation best port in Australasia, with world class Owned Enterprise while ferries wagons with individual capacity for over performance. The increased use of rail continue to trade as Interisland 53 tonnes as compared with the 44 plays a big part in the achievement of Line. What the NZ Government tonnes carried by an average truck. The that Vision. bought was one Cook Strait new wagons have the flexibility to carry ferry and the lease on two more, either three 20ft containers or one TEU Developed over 14 years ago, Axis Rail 180 mainline locomotives, and one FEU. at Ports of Auckland is New Zealand’s 4,200 wagons and two railway largest and most sophisticated on-port At the same time KiwiRail is improving workshops. rail facility. With capacity for 500,000 stretches of rail line to increase TEU p.a. the Axis Rail operation runs Although it presently carries only 6% axle-load carrying capacity by 39% over four parallel lines, each over 500 of freight by weight around NZ, rail to 25 tonnes with the replacement of meters long. These can accommodate is expected to play a growing role in nominated wooden piers and bridges. 128 wagons simultaneously for container the movement of freight around the Certain tunnels are being replaced and loading or discharge. A modern fleet country with growth forecasts of 70% others improved to accommodate 2.90 of reach stackers and straddle carriers by 2031 – from 13.7 Million tonnes meter hi-cube containers. unloads and loads wagons and transfers to 23.1 Million tonnes and to claim a KiwiRail General Manager Commercial containers between Axis Rail and the 25% share of NZ freight movement Aaron Temperton says that on many container stack in the container terminal by 2040. of these routes, the improvements yard. In line with the Port Company’s will remove the restriction to enable twin-lifting container operation, container 10 OF RAIL

11 POAL aims to be the best port in Australasia with world class performance.

12 moves to and from Axis Rail can be After extended negotiations, the rail completed by the Straddles in twin-lift connection will finally become a reality New Chief mode thus increasing efficiency and later this year. POAL Manager Operations Executive for improving productivity. Planning & Customer Service, Jon Ward says the port estimates that when While Ports of Auckland handled nearly KiwiRail fully operational, the rail link will save 900,000 TEU in 2008, the under- 100,000 central city truck moves a year utilised Axis Rail claimed only 10% of Former express Couriers and that it will increase the proportion of that volume. The state-of-the-art facility Chief Executive Jim Quinn the port’s cargo carried by rail from 10% presently handles 85,000 TEU of its took over the controls at to 30%. 500,000 TEU p.a. capacity. Direct KiwiRail on 1 March as group trains currently operate in and out of Although details of the Wiri Rail Shuttle Chief Executive. Mr Quinn the port including KiwiRail shuttles from have yet to be finalised, it is likely to has worked in transport and Southdown, the main Northern KiwiRail commence with one shuttle per day logistics for many years consolidation depot in the Auckland gradually building to two daily trips. The suburb of Penrose. shuttle will have 23 wagons of 46 TEU including with NZ Post, WEL capability each. At POAL, Jon Ward says One of the main reasons for the under Energy and Freightways. that this will mean about 50 boxes at a utilisation of the facility was the historic time being moved at convenient off peak shortage of rail equipment in an ageing hours in an environmentally friendly way. fleet variously owned by companies who failed to invest in much needed “The launch of the Wiri rail connection new equipment. will be the realisation of a long-held ambition for Ports of Auckland. We In 2005, POAL developed an Inland Port are very mindful of the fact that the (IP) at Wiri in the industrial heartland efficiency of inland transport, in this case of South Auckland. Since then the IP’s rail, is critical to the efficiency of the contribution to a more efficient and container terminal operation and also faster supply chain has been recognised critical to growth prospects. Obviously by support from some 30 customers. full and smooth interaction between The IP currently handles over 50,000 Ports of Auckland’s Axis Rail facility and TEU annually. the rail network is a prerequisite for the When POAL built the Inland Port, rail was efficient delivery of integrated transport an integral component of the strategy logistics” he says. to provide better supply chain solutions for exporters and importers. The plan was to re-establish rail sidings and a hard-stand adjacent to the Inland Port to link into the Line and thereby facilitate a shuttle service between the Wiri IP and the seaport. POAL was aware that the rail connection with Wiri would enable a significant Jim Quinn. increase in the volume of containers moving annually on the shuttle.

13 News and views on New Zealand MARKET ROUNDUP shipping trades

Among recent shipping related Hamish Bamford now returns to Sydney appointments, former South Island to head up OOCL Logistics. After a career Manager for Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), spanning 41 years in shipping, John Malcolm Woods, has taken over from MacLennan has retired from Pacific John Sinclair as General Manager for Forum Line. Reporting to 12 South Pacific MOL NZ. Malcolm Woods has worked Government shareholders including NZ, for MOL for many years originally with MacLennan successfully steered the line Seatrans which represented MOL in as CEO for 22 years. He is replaced NZ before the Line opened its own NZ by Sean Bolt who joins PFL from offices in 2004. Assisting him is Grant stevedoring company C3 where he was Osmond who wears the dual hats of CEO for three years. His maritime career Deputy General Manager and Marketing started in 1976 when he went to sea with Manager. After a 30 year career in NZ USSCo and includes various positions shipping, 29 of them working in close with the and Port of association with MOL, John Sinclair, Marlborough. Another relative newcomer while relinquishing his hands-on role as to PFL is Roger Hawthorne. He joined MOL NZ GM and Director, continues PFL after a 20 year shipping career in his association with MOL in 2009 in positions with China Navigation Company, an advisory capacity as Consultant. Leonard & Dingley, P&O Ports and In Auckland, Peter Sutherland has Maersk NZ. PFL was established in 1977 succeeded Hamish Bamford as OOCL by the South Pacific Forum nations as NZ General Manager. He has worked an instrument for regional development. in Sales with OOCL since the Auckland After a 24 year career in the shipping opening of the Line’s first NZ office in industry, Pacific Direct Line shareholder 2006. After transferring from Australia and General Manager, Tammy Hamawi OOCL to open the Line’s NZ operation, retired recently. She is succeeded as PDL General Manager by Kennedy Simpson who has worked in shipping for 23 years and with PDL since 2005. At Polynesia Shipping Line, Michael Swan has succeeded John Heap as General Manager NZ based in Auckland. PSL operates services from Ports of Auckland General Wharves to Fiji, the Samoas and Tonga in a 17 day rotation. Zespri has The new container ship Cosco Damman on its confirmed the appointment of Acting maiden call to POAL this year. Chief Executive Lain Jager as Chief 14 Executive. Also at Zespri Sally Gardiner CILT ANNUAL AWARDS 2009 has been appointed General Manager of The Chartered Institute of Logistics Supply Chain. Zespri Shipping Manager and is calling is Mike Knowles. for nominations for its Annual Awards, to be presented at its Annual Dinner on 14th October 2009 in Auckland. Since early 2009, NZ importers Apart from its Academic Awards, have been subjected to increased nominations are sought for awards container inspections with an extra in the Communications and Industry NZ$100 an hour inspection charge being Innovation Category. levied against ‘dirty sea containers’ to cover the cost of extra time needed for reduce emissions and congestion on The CILT Awards are made for: a full inspection. Ministry of Agriculture NZ roads. The National Government • The Most Meritorious Published carries out these checks to establish bio claims the funding amounted to a article in a New Zealand security contamination rates. subsidy which it cannot tolerate however Publication MAF claims that close to one in 10 critics say road and rail have received boxes fail inspection. Although exporters successive subsidies for years and • The Most Meritorious are at fault for sending the ‘dirty that the removal of the support for Presentation containers’ it is the NZ importer who Coastal Shipping will lead to increased must carry the cost. road congestion. • For Implementation and Practice • For Public Transport Innovation

Ports of Auckland has welcomed After calling NZ ports for 22 years, • For Supply Chain Innovation several maiden callers over the last the 1,600 TEU/450 reefer plug vessel few months including the NYK ship ACS MOL Wellington made its final NZ call • For Safety and Security Innovation. Diamond and COSCO’s new 2,700 TEU when it departed Auckland for Tokyo in container ship, Cosco Dammam both of February. The ship first called NZ on the which operate in the Japan, Korea, China NZ/Japan service in 1987. It is replaced Nominations are also sought for service. Other recent maiden callers in the North Asia service by the JPO Leo CILT’s Young Achiever of the Year who include the dry bulker Darling River which made its first voyage round NZ goes forward to compete for the CILT offloading 24,000 tonnes of gypsum in March/April 2009. According to MOL International Young Achiever award. at General Wharves, and research NZ General Manager, Malcolm Woods, vessels, the Thomas G Thompson and Full details of criteria and application this is a temporary replacement while HMAS Launceston. rules can be found at www.cilt.co.nz awaiting the arrival of a newbuilding and click on Awards. later this year that has been designed Road transport looks the likely specifically for the trade which MOL The deadline for nominations is 31st August 2009. beneficiary of the new NZ National operates with COSCo, Maersk and NYK. Government’s decision to scrap the He says the newbuilding is a reflection former Labour Government’s NZ$36 of MOL’s continued commitment to the Million funding allocated to revitalise trade. It will be of similar capacity to coastal shipping. Introduced in 2008 the the MOL Wellington, with more reefer new SeaChange policy aimed to double plugs and ‘40-foot friendly’ to meet the the amount of NZ shortsea cargo and to demands of the trade. 15 DIRECTORY

Jens Madsen Richard Potton Managing Director Manager, Sales, Marketing Ports of Auckland Limited & Product Development DDI: 64 9 336 4884 DDI: 64 9 309 1249 Mob: 021 921 353 Mob: 0274 484 473 Fax: 64 9 3091375 Fax: 64 9 309 1375 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Front Cover: POAL Managing Director Jens Madsen says “The newly introduced Business Rules are all about lifting our game, working smarter and having better forward planning”. (See page 4).

Interconnect is the magazine of Axis Intermodal, Sunderland Street, PO Box 897, Auckland, New Zealand. Tel 64 9 309 1200. Fax 64 9 309 1212.

Editorial: Anne Hunter www.axis-intermodal.co.nz