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INTERCONNECT THE MAGAZINE FOR OUR CUSTOMERS 2008 > > > Maersk NZ Inland Ports Toyofuji SEPT All issues of interconnect AXIS FOCUS: magazine are available on www.axis-intermodal.co.nz FROM THE DESK OF GRANT JOREY GENERAL MANAGER AXIS OPERATIONS CONTENTS PAGES & PRODUCTIVITY AXIS FOCUS Grant Jorey introduces the five business 2 - 3 units in the Operations & Productivity Department – the Port’s engine room. STRIVING FOR OPERATIONS REVIEW 4 - 5 WORLD CLASS PRODUCTIVITY FACE TO FACE With Julian Bevis, Maersk NZ Managing 6 - 7 & BEST VALUE Director. CUSTOMER POAL CONFERENCE Highlights of the POAL annual customer 8 - 9 PROPOSITION conference. On 30 June 2008 I stepped into the large shoes vacated by Vic Dundas. Car Carrier TOYOFUJI As General Manager Axis Operations Giant Japanese car carrier Toyofuji puts car 10 - 11 imports into overdrive at POAL. & Productivity, I report to Ports of Auckland (POAL) Managing Director Jens Madsen. With my colleague GETTING TO KNOW YOU Craig Sain, General Manager Axis Sales, Partnership through enduring customer 12 - 13 Marketing & Logistics, I am jointly relationships. responsible for the performance of Axis Intermodal – POAL’s container MARKET ROUND-UP 14 - 15 handling division. Container trade news & moves. This tasks me with leading the operational achievements of five business units within POAL’s service offering namely: Axis AXIS DIRECTORY Back Page Transport; Axis Capacity & Planning; Axis Stevedoring; Axis Engineering; Axis Inland Ports, Axis Pack and Empty Depots. 2 AXIS FOCUS: Planning the achievement of best handling practice Axis Pack, Inland Ports & Led by Raoul Borley, this is the Terminal standards across both terminals. Recent Empty Services focus has been on the expansion of FROM THE DESK OF Control centre of the Port. This team works These services are all designed to add value dual-direction straddle driving with the GRANT JOREY round the clock planning and controlling and take costs out of the supply chain for our the port’s container operations. To do so introduction of two-way lanes to provide customers. They are an inherent part of our GENERAL MANAGER they must ensure that all equipment and more direct and faster access between the strategy of doing all we can in the provision of AXIS OPERATIONS resources are deployed efficiently and road grid and container stacks. supply chain solutions for our customers. & PRODUCTIVITY effectively at all times. This means continued Transport Axis Pack provides general and specialised focus on identifying ways to work smarter pack and unpack services for exporters and – on CHE (container handling equipment) Jon Ward’s department has three prime importers. The Empty services offering and on systems such as SPARCS the port’s functions: includes storage of empty containers for • It operates the Rail Exchange at the Port. electronic container handling programme. shipping lines, container cleaning, repair, Axis Stevedoring • It controls the Road Office with its new pre-trip and other related services. There VBS (Vehicle Booking System) for all are Empty service centres at both container Jonathan Hulme leads this largest division trucks delivering and collecting containers terminals and at the Inland Port at Wiri. Our at the port. While independent stevedoring Inland Port offering is utilised by many of our companies work at General Wharves, Axis to and from the container terminals. cargo owner customers who realise the Inland Stevedoring’s focus is exclusively on the • It operates Axis Shuttle which bridges the Port value by time and cost saving. (See pgs operation of all the CHE at the two container gaps where the straddle carriers can’t 4 and 5). terminals Axis Bledisloe and Axis Fergusson. reach by moving containers – full, empty The team works towards consistency in and transhipment – around the port. Engineering Like the port, Engineering never stops – it is operating 24/7, 365 days of the year. Led by Mike Osborne, a 60+ team of specialist civil, mechanical and electrical engineers is dedicated to servicing and maintaining all the engineering requirements of the port. This team aims to maintain a 100% round the clock port operation. They are consistently examining ways to improve reliability and efficiency of the CHE. Power and the electricity supply is obviously vital to the port’s 24/7 operation and Engineering is constantly looking at ways of improving power distribution systems across the port. As this structure shows, we are a team. Our focus is on streamlining operations and increasing productivity towards the achievement of a consistent improvement of the service experience for all our Ports of From left: Mike Osborne, Grant Jorey, Grange Pole, Jon Ward. Auckland customers. 3 OPERATIONS PORT BUYS INTO THE REVIEW: SUPPLY CHAIN The Port Company’s endeavours the wharf has become a very important TOP OF THE towards this goal are apparent element in the supply chain. “At POAL we are in expansion beyond the port already very on-wharf, in-terminal, on-berth BILL IN PORTS efficient with our systems, capacity and gate. Pushing beyond the port capabilities. Until recently we had no influence OF AUCKLAND’S gate, POAL is closely engaged over what goes before and after and how on a number of Supply Chain efficiently those processes are executed. Now we’ve broken through the traditional port role VISION collaborative initiatives with barrier; we are focused on going beyond that customers. Major among to the supply chain where we can take some STATEMENT IS: these is POAL’s Inland Port (IP) responsibility.” development at East Tamaki Streamline the Supply Chain and its newest venture at Wiri in ‘We want to The concept of Inland Ports arose from the South Auckland, the catchment need to streamline supply chains. At Wiri, for a large number of major NZ IP Operations Supervisor Des Cook outlines ensure the exporters and importers. the process: “Take import containers: our customers advise us before the ship arrives, most efficient of those containers they are interested in. Coupled with the downturn in the We ensure they are identified in the Database international economy, escalating fuel costs for our yard planners who in turn, ensure and cost and the retrenchment and rescheduling of those boxes are easily accessible in the stack shipping services has trained focus more for that night collection onto the shuttle for effective intensely than ever before on the Supply delivery to the Inland Port. That enables truck Chain with cargo owners – exporters and moves at low peak traffic times, minimisation importers – straining to identify how they of carbon emissions; efficient use of supply chain can do it better, smarter, cheaper. “At resources – all of which helps streamline and POAL we want to assist in their effort. We’re take costs out of supply chain.” for NZ trade’. doing that by bringing the Port closer to the POAL’s IPs currently service some 50 customers’ doorstep through the offering of customers – both importers and exporters the Inland Port” explains Yvonne Theuerkauf, and others in the chain including shipping recently appointed Axis Intermodal Logistics lines, freight forwarders and trucking Manager who works with customers to contractors. identify ways the port can assist with the “Export containers get 10 days free storage realisation of supply chain efficiencies. at the IP however, exporters can use Wiri IP She works hand in glove with POAL Inland to feed export containers in as and when they Port Manager Grange Pole who explains wish thus freeing up capacity on their site” that the efficient flow of cargo to and from explains Grange Pole. 4 “For the importer, containers are The intelligence from Yvonne Theuerkauf is The IP team has swipe access to our that customers are using the POAL Inland facility which means they can deliver and repositioned from seaport to IP Ports to their best advantage. “Some already collect 24/7”. have sophisticated supply chain processes ready for immediate release next Current annual volume handled at the IPs that link in with their warehouse and is 50,000 TEU. Available capacity is far morning or, they can be held inventory systems. And they are getting greater. The team is confident volumes will for as long as importers want. smarter in their use of the IP. Their feedback increase significantly with the completion of a is highly positive.” Demurrage is out of the equation; Rail Siding at Wiri which, with the support of With many other shippers, large importer OnTrack and KiwiRail, will be serviced initially at the IP there are six free days Panasonic’s NZ Distribution centre is based by one and later by two daily shunts between the IP and the seaport. The rail shunts will and after that we charge a in South Auckland. Panasonic NZ imports some 1,500 TEU a year in 40ft containers ideally cater for 100,000 TEU a year moving cheaper storage rate scale rather into POAL from Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, between the IP and the seaport which will greatly assist in reducing vehicles on the road, than a demurrage scale.” China and Australia. NZ Shipping & Logistics Manager Hamish Pryce has identified real thus impacting carbon emissions. Empty BOX Repositioning value in utilising an Inland Port hub. “We For further enquiries, please often have 30 or 40 FEUs at a time and contact Yvonne Theuerkauf An important element of the IP service we simply don’t have the capacity in our offering is the repositioning of empty warehouse to store that volume. Nor do we on DDI 09 309 1254 or email containers. Because of the nature of NZ’s have the resources to unload them all in one [email protected] imports of manufactured and dry goods and day. POAL’s Inland Port facility gives us the exports dominated by reefer product, there storage capacity and the opportunity to draw is a problematical proliferation of empties down containers as and when we need them.